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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.

  • 23 Jun 1944, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Wed, 2014-05-21 15:53
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    R. E. Jones Wartime diary
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    Fri, 23 Jun 1944

    Rain & heavy cloud. Cleared up 4pm.

    Flaherty buried, & in a coffin too. Many moons since coffins were seen, rice bags are the usual thing. (The wood was more or less stolen for this coffin anyway?)

    Allies approaching Cherbourg 21st. Battle on 87mls front intensified in Italy 20th. Viipuri evacuate by Finns 20th. No news of S Pacific or Burma again today.

    Poor food due to yesterdays non arrival of rations, & it doesn’t seem that they made up for it today.

    Still rubbing in “new weapon” & now are threatening New York with trans-Atlantic super-rockets. Changsha occupying Jap attention at present per paper.

    Small quantity of mutton available in town, the first in two years, Y40 per catty, or 2/4 per oz.

    Yarn with Mary. Some camp yarns very malicious & dangerous. Joan tells of going into Prison & seeing Indian head hung on a wall. ((Not sure which Joan he is referring to.))

    Vic Garten’s “Vaudeville” not so good.

    H.M.King with Sir R. Campbell in Normandy 16th.

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  • 23 Jun 1944, Eric MacNider's wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Tue, 2014-06-24 20:41
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    Eric MacNider's wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Fri, 23 Jun 1944

    Death – M.J. Flaherty, (46), HKP.

  • 23 Jun 1944, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp

    Submitted by brian edgar on Thu, 2015-07-09 17:31
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    Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Fri, 23 Jun 1944

    Father Bernard Meyer buries M. J. Flaherty in a Roman Catholic service.

    George Wright-Nooth regards the euology as excessive and the revelation of words spoken between the dying man and his confessor as inappropriate.

    Source:

    George Wright-Nooth, Prisoner of the Turnip Heads, 1994, 215-216

    Note: for the prelude to today's events see yesterday's entry.

     


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