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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.

  • 21 Dec 1942, Barbara Anslow's diary

    Submitted by Barbara Anslow on Tue, 2012-03-13 17:58
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    Barbara Anslow's diary
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    Mon, 21 Dec 1942

    Shanghai people vaccinated this afternoon, but whether or not they will be going soon is in question because now a case of diphtheria is in camp - Mrs. Williams, who was in our room on Friday visiting Mrs. K.   Good work for Dr Y-E to diagnose right away.  Consternation and panic as soon as the Jap authorities knew.  Mrs Drown's concert cancelled, or postponed, and presumably all gatherings will be banned - Nativity plays etc. - another strange Christmas. Such a pity when everyone has been trying to make it as gay as possible under the circumstances.  Hospital out of bounds to visitors.

    Bridge tonight, I played with Kelly and let him down badly, through ignorance principally.  Tony came up and joined in.

    Father Hessler asked Mum to be President of the Ladies' Catholic Action Group, which she will.  She had a blood count, - OK; still having thiamine dosing, her leg much better.

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  • 21 Dec 1942, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Fri, 2012-12-14 15:21
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    R. E. Jones Wartime diary
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    Mon, 21 Dec 1942

    Chinese PM.

    ((G.))

  • 21 Dec 1942, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp

    Submitted by brian edgar on Thu, 2015-12-17 18:26
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    Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp
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    Mon, 21 Dec 1942

    The International Committee of the Red Cross is allowed to visit Shamshuipo POW Camp and Bowen Road Military Hospital. Delegate C. A. Kengelbacher - down from Tokyo - is careful not to criticise the Japanese too severely in his report to Geneva - with good reason, as all Red Cross reports were read by the authorities and outright condemnation would have led to the cessation of contact.

    He also meets Dr. Selwyn-Clarke who impressed on him the need for the speedy repatriation of women, children, the sick, the infirm and the aged. He also asks him to try to get permission for the resumption of the scheme whereby Stanleyites who need X-rays or other special services are allowed to be taken to the French Hospital.

    Sources:

    Kengelbacher 'Rapport' dated 9, March 1943, and Camille Gorgé to Politisches Interesses, Berne, Telegram 178, 26.2.43 both in E2001-02#1000/114#807*  (Swiss Federal Archives, Berne)

  • 21 Dec 1942, Eric MacNider's wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Tue, 2016-11-08 13:27
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    Eric MacNider's wartime diary
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    Mon, 21 Dec 1942

    Case of suspected diphtheria in I.Q. Block 13 (Mrs. Williams): Concert cancelled.


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