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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.

  • 20 Jan 1942: RE Jones Diary

    Submitted by Admin on Sat, 2011-12-24 13:59
    Book / Document: 
    R. E. Jones Wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Tue, 20 Jan 1942

    Pris’s did not go out today as arranged. Few internees arrived D Block & patients arrived from QM Hospital with some staff.

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  • 20 Jan 1942, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp

    Submitted by brian edgar on Wed, 2012-01-11 15:22
    Book / Document: 
    Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Tue, 20 Jan 1942

    Daisy ('Day') Sage (later Joyce) is sent to Stanley Camp from the emergency hospital at La Salle College in Kowloon, where she'd worked in the Auxillary Nursing Service during the fighting.

     

    Dr. Alan Barwell is also sent from Lasalle to Stanley, as is Robert E. Stott, who's he's treating for an internal hemmorrhage. Stott will later escape from the French Hospital.

     

    Maryknoll House is taken over by the Japanese and the Maryknollers are sent to Stanley. They're in Blocks E, F and G in the Prison Warders' apartments, sleeping on camp cots, 4-7 in a room.

    Sources:

    Sage: Geoffrey Emerson, Hong Kong Internment, 2008, Additional Appendix 111

    Barwell and Stott: Stott's Escape Statement, pages 2 and 3 (Ride Papers)

    Maryknollers: The Maryknoll Diary, 194

  • 20 Jan 1942, Harry Ching's wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Sat, 2013-01-05 22:21
    Book / Document: 
    Harry Ching's wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Tue, 20 Jan 1942

    Some of lesser banks permitted pay out to depositors. Only $50 per head. Hongkong and Shanghai Bank not included "because it has not yet completed returns of more than 18,000 savings accounts". I went to Chase Bank and got $50 in the Chinese $5 notes overprinted Hongkong $1. 

    Post Office reopened; small sign of return normal conditions. 

    10 p.m. air raid siren, first since surrender. Rumour two planes made reconnaissance over Kowloon. 


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