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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 Nov 1945, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp

    Submitted by brian edgar on Mon, 2015-04-06 23:29
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    Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Mon, 19 Nov 1945

    Ssiter Mary Paul of the Maryknoll Convent writes to General Officer Commanding, Major-General F. W. Festing.

    By the end of January 1943 all of the Maryknoll Sisters had left Hong Kong. They started to return soon after the surrender, but found that the Maryknoll Convent School had, like a number of other Hong Kong public buildings, been turned into a Japanese military hospital. At first there were 1200, but in November the British sent 800 more. The Sisters were living in a small bungalow on Prince Edward Road and they wanted their building back so they could start teaching again. A letter to David MacDougall on November 16 met with short shrift, so Sister Mary Paul is trying again today.

    Major-General Festing is a Catholic and grants her an interview, at which he will eventually agree to let the Sisters use part of the top floor and have their own entrance and chapel. On Decmeber 18 the army will help the sisters move in, and they're allowed to use more rooms than originally planned. The doors and windows been there, but much has been destroyed and much looted. Japanese POWs help them move furniture and clean.

    They will get the entire buildin back one day, but until May 1946 the sisters and sharing it with 600 Japanese soldiers.

    Source:

    Cindy Yik-yi Chu, The Maryknoll Sisters in Hong Kong, 2004, 59-60

     

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  • REPATRIATION NOTICE No. 37

    Submitted by David on Thu, 2021-02-25 16:24
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    Repatriation notices
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Mon, 19 Nov 1945

    REPATRIATION NOTICE No. 37

    AMERICAN CITIZENS ONLY

    The undermentioned persons are warned to stand by in readiness to leave for MANILA (en route for U.S.A.) by H.M.S "Glory” which may leave Hong Kong on Wednesday, 21st November or, shortly afterwards.

    Instructions as to places and times for embarkation will be published later.

    Those who have not received certificates from the United States Consul and who desire to be repatriated must call at the Consulate and also on the Repatriation Officer before 4 p.m. Tuesday, 20th November.

    Mrs M. A. Boulton

    Miss Dorothy W. K. Chin and two brothers

    Mrs Dellamae Chin and two sons

    Mr and Mrs T. P. Gregory and daughter

    Mr and Mrs C. R. Jonsson and daughter

    Mr A. B. W. Nance

    Miss Ching Chui-moi and two brothers.

    REPATRIATION OFFICE
    19th November, 1945.

    Published on p.6 of SCMP for 20 Nov 1945.


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