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 Jun 1943, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp
Submitted by brian edgar on Tue, 2012-01-17 19:53Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Mon, 21 Jun 1943Franklin Gimson notes in his diary that he considers the British Communal Council 'a subversive organisation'.
He also mentions disapprovingly a discussion of post-war Hong Kong in which the members disregarded the interests of labour and considered only those of employers.
Although Gimson considers the B.C.C. a 'revolutionary body' (diary entry of Friday, June 25) Camp politics aren't about a simple clash between 'left' and 'right'.
Source:
Franklin Gimson, Internment in Hong-Kong March 1942 to August 1945,typescript held at Rhodes House (Oxford), Ms. Ind. Ocn. S222
21 Jun 1943, R. E. Jones Wartime diary
Submitted by Admin on Sun, 2013-06-02 15:29Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Mon, 21 Jun 194321 Jun 1943, Eric MacNider's wartime diary
Submitted by Admin on Tue, 2016-06-21 14:36Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Mon, 21 Jun 1943
