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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 Apr 1944, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Thu, 2014-04-03 21:25
    Book / Document: 
    R. E. Jones Wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Fri, 21 Apr 1944

    Overcast.

    Gardening party commenced. (Japs say that this party was organized in order to provide extra work (no discipline) so that they could then issue extra rations.)

    2 Jap fighters patrolled all day.  

    With Steve pm.

    Jap paper ridiculous in most of its reports especially re Burma & Mountbatten.

    Peanut butter issued.

    (Waffen still stand in Deutchland?)

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  • 21 Apr 1944, Eric MacNider's wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Mon, 2016-04-25 10:28
    Book / Document: 
    Eric MacNider's wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Fri, 21 Apr 1944

    Issue of oil, c. powder, tea, sugar.

    ((undated comment at end of line, not clear to read:)) Internees working in Jap. Gardens to p?????? ?????? ???? ????? office ?????? ?? ????????? 


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