70 years ago: Hong Kong's wartime diaries
18 Apr 1942, Barbara Anslow's diary
Submitted by Admin on Tue, 2012-01-24 20:55Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Sat, 18 Apr 1942Less to eat than ever: cooking (Married Q) dreadful; more kitchen squabbles there . Everyone fed up and starving. One foot seems going to sleep. Wet and blowy.
18 Apr 1942, R. E. Jones Wartime diary
Submitted by Admin on Tue, 2012-03-13 15:32Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Sat, 18 Apr 1942Rotten weather.
Cookhouse all day.
Parcels arriving OK.
18 Apr 1942, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp
Submitted by brian edgar on Thu, 2013-02-14 21:53Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Sat, 18 Apr 1942The 'Doolittle' raids take place today: American bombers launch attacks on targets in Tokyo, Yokohama, Kobe and other major Japanese cities. Although not of great military significance, they are valuable for propaganda and morale-raising purposes, as they are the first time that the main islands of Japan have been hit.
News of the raids seems to have taken a few days to reach the internees. On April 22 R. E. Jones records 'Japan bombed?' and the next day he makes an inaccurate note of the damage done.
American missionary John Bechtel was later to claim that the Japanese-sponsored Hong Kong News was not delivered in Camp, or not produced at all, on this day because of the raids. The American bombers arrived over Tokyo at about noon Japanese time so it's possible that it was April 19 that the paper didn't arrive.
Source:
Bechtel: John Bechtel, Fetters Fall, 1945, 220
18 Apr 1942, Eric MacNider's wartime diary
Submitted by Grace on Wed, 2015-04-29 10:56Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Sat, 18 Apr 1942Bread bl. 4 & 5 only
