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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.

  • 24 Jan 1945, Barbara Anslow's diary

    Submitted by Barbara Anslow on Sun, 2012-04-22 21:54
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    Barbara Anslow's diary
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    Wed, 24 Jan 1945

    Our room's turn to sweep the passage.

    Water-carrying day; spent a long time at water hydrant, then went down to well.  ((strangely, now I can't remember where that well was!)).  There's a pump now.  Met Concannon there, he carried water up for me. Got most of my washing done, and hair.

    Newspaper supposedly suppressed.  Rumours of Canton being surrounded.

    Clifton still on fluid diet (at hospital).

    Lovely stew - carroty and oniony - for tiffin.

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  • 24 Jan 1945, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Fri, 2015-01-02 12:07
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    R. E. Jones Wartime diary
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    Wed, 24 Jan 1945

    Cloudy. NW wind. Warmer.

    Ground rice.

    Some chow at Steves.

    Took door down for Rita.

    Nickel [Nicol?] saw me re work .

    Lorry with nothing. 

    Yesterday’s papers destroyed.

  • 24 Jan 1945, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp

    Submitted by brian edgar on Sat, 2016-05-28 17:34
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    Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp
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    Wed, 24 Jan 1945

    The Japanese Red Cross sends the International Committee of the Red Cross a telegram which gives us an idea of the set up in the camp medical facilities in early 1945:

    Tweed Bay Hospital containing about seventy patients in six wards attended by ample medical staff and qualified nurses. Latter accommodated top floor hospital...TB Sanatorium in excellent location and presently accommodat(es) ten male and three female patients....

    (spelling and punctuation normalised)

    Source: Telegram 1673 in B G 17 07-069 Archives of the International Committee of the Red Cross (Geneva)


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