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 Feb 1942, R. E. Jones Wartime diary
Submitted by Admin on Sat, 2011-12-31 21:49Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Sat, 21 Feb 1942Cold & drizzly. Stood 3hrs for 1lb tin of jam $1.
21 Feb 1942, Barbara Anslow's diary
Submitted by Admin on Thu, 2012-01-12 13:34Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Sat, 21 Feb 1942Fried fish today - lovely.
Glasses gone for re-framing ((hopefully sent in to town - the bridge across the nose broke during the war, and since then the lenses were tied on to the frames of an old pair of sunglasses.))
21 Feb 1942, Harry Ching's wartime diary
Submitted by Admin on Thu, 2013-01-17 17:11Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Sat, 21 Feb 1942Twenty-five elderly internees from Stanley admitted to the French Hospital in Causeway Bay.
21 Feb 1942, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp
Submitted by brian edgar on Fri, 2014-06-06 19:16Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Sat, 21 Feb 1942At another Extraordinary Meeting called because of the 'Cheng crisis', the Temporary Committee hears a letter from Selwyn-Clarke to French banker Paul de Roux - the idea of a committee in town that will raise money to carry out relief work is eventually to give birth to the Informal Welfare Committee.
Source:
John Stericker, Captive Colony, 1945, Chapter IV, page 17
