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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 Aug 1944, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Sun, 2014-06-08 13:55
    Book / Document: 
    R. E. Jones Wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Sun, 20 Aug 1944

    Planes over about 1am.

    Dry, overcast, squally pm.

    Electricity off indefinitely (for perhaps 4 days) so got our wood boiler going.

    Col. Takanada arrived for Camp inspection, but the General who should have come to carry it out didn’t come.

    Water only on 6-8am & 4-6pm. Fire wood reduced by 20%. We are reduced to a stage [sic] of siege almost.

    The whole Camp cooking to be reorganized. We get Congee at 10am a meal at 5pm & 4oz of dry rice.

    The lorry that fetched the rice today is supposed to have been attacked by a Chinese mob in Kowloon.

    No papers.

    With Steve pm.

    No smokes. We are back to the early 1942 days again.

    New Moon.

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  • 20 Aug 1944, Eric MacNider's wartime diary

    Submitted by Old Man on Wed, 2014-07-02 12:47
    Book / Document: 
    Eric MacNider's wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Sun, 20 Aug 1944

    Short / Brown

    NO ELECTRICITY – Bread into congee

    Water 6-8 a.m 4-6 p.m.

    Jenner

    Pearson


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