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70 years ago: Hong Kong's wartime diaries

Shows diary entries from seventy-one years ago, using today's date in Hong Kong as the starting point. To see pages from earlier dates (they go back to 1 Dec 1941), choose the date below and click the 'Apply' button.

  • 19 Jan 1942: RE Jones Diary

    Submitted by Admin on Sat, 2011-12-24 13:58
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    R. E. Jones Wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Mon, 19 Jan 1942

    Finished the ladder.

    Rumours re Russians attacking Japan & of the Japs being told to get out of HK or be bombed out. The news is supposed to be authentic so we are feeling somewhat bucked.

    Pris’s changed into their own clothing.

    Ko So came to see me. ((This was probably Jones's amah. There is a bit more information about her at http://gwulo.com/comment/34555#comment-34555, where her name is spelled "Garso".))

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  • 19 Jan 1942, Barbara Anslow's diary

    Submitted by Barbara Anslow on Sat, 2011-12-31 21:15
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    Barbara Anslow's diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Mon, 19 Jan 1942

    Bad throat.  Very cold. 

    Fire opposite us in the night - very near thing.  There were just sooty sparks at first ((from the tenements on other side of the road)), but later the fire really got going.  All the gongs in the neighbourhood were beating as alarms, several huge tongues of fire blew over in our direction.  ((Discussions among us at what to do if the wind blew the flames across the road to our hotel.)) 

  • 19 Jan 1942, Notes on Stanley Internment Camp, March 1942

    Submitted by Admin on Fri, 2012-04-13 15:24
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    Notes on Stanley Internment Camp, March 1942
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Mon, 19 Jan 1942

    The Queen Mary Hospital, with staff and patients, was moved to Stanley on January 19 and installed in the old Indian Single Warder's Quarters ...

  • 19 Jan 1942, Eric MacNider's wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Tue, 2016-01-12 18:30
    Book / Document: 
    Eric MacNider's wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Mon, 19 Jan 1942

    Internment at Stanley began.

  • 19 Jan 1942, W J Carrie's wartime diary

    Submitted by billagee on Thu, 2019-08-29 07:51
    Book / Document: 
    W J Carrie's wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Mon, 19 Jan 1942

    I was late yesterday [torn page, missing word] got dark as I wrote - my car still safe and I begin to hope again - though I know it can't be true. They'll take it sometime.

    I have just been to see Bertie and took him 100 cigarettes - he was so pleased as he was entirely out of them. He is progressing very slowly - his burns are not healing very well.    Cheero Darling  B.


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