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 Sep 1942, Barbara Anslow's diary
Submitted by Barbara Anslow on Mon, 2012-02-27 12:42Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Mon, 21 Sep 194221 Sep 1942, R. E. Jones Wartime diary
Submitted by Admin on Thu, 2012-08-30 22:18Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Mon, 21 Sep 1942Checking Inds. duty hours. ((Indians?))
Fine, cooler & dry.
Chines troops at Shum Chun. ((ie the village just across the border in China. It's city today, now known as Shenzhen.))
21 Sep 1942, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp
Submitted by brian edgar on Thu, 2013-08-15 21:23Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Mon, 21 Sep 1942Dorothy Jenner notes in her diary that there's been a strike of vegetable cutters and wood cutters, who came out when their extra rations were cut due to camp shortages. In spite of the ringing slogan 'A matter of principle' the strikers meet with little sympathy, and section leader ('blockhead') Jenner soon fills their places with willing workers.
Source:
Jenner: Christina Twomey, Australia's Forgotten Prisoners, 2007, 64
