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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.

  • 25 Sep 1942, Barbara Anslow's diary

    Submitted by Barbara Anslow on Mon, 2012-02-27 12:54
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    Barbara Anslow's diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Fri, 25 Sep 1942

    Mum received $15 from the Relief Committee on account of herself and Mabel, principally to buy sugar.

    Rumour that the troops from Shamshuipo are coming into the Prison; that the Germans on the Stalingrad front are in a chaotic state; that British (or Allies) have got into Caucausus via Iran.  

    We did garden over in morning – Dorothy, her Martin nephew ((either John or Peter)) and I.  Then washed clothes and hair ((no shampoo or hot water, a sliver of Welfare poor soap)).

    To Benediction in grotto in evening.  Finished writing Chapter 6.

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  • 25 Sep 1942, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Thu, 2012-08-30 22:22
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    R. E. Jones Wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Fri, 25 Sep 1942

    Allies fighting in Caucasus. Guam attacked by U.S. All seems to be coming our way gradually.

    Japs fortifying and preparing HK for attack.

  • 25 Sep 1942, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp

    Submitted by brian edgar on Thu, 2014-03-27 01:45
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    Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Fri, 25 Sep 1942

    The Japanese are sending a second 'draft' of POWs from Shamshuipo to work in Japan:

    At four in the morning of 25 September, with the weather still warm and humid, the draftees hastily swallowed a rushed breakfast of rice and fish, and were issued with two small sugarloaves as emergency rations. Then they made their way to the Jubilee parade ground of Sham Shui Po camp for assembly.

    After a long wait, about 1,865 men are marched to Bamboo Pier, sprayed with disinfectation and ferried out to the Lisbon Maru, a 'rusty old freighter' moored off Stonecutter's Island.

    Source:

    Tony Banham, The Sinking of the Lisbon Maru, 2010, Kindle Location 858-870

  • 25 Sep 1942, Eric MacNider's wartime diary

    Submitted by Old Man on Tue, 2014-07-08 22:52
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    Eric MacNider's wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Fri, 25 Sep 1942

    Bread issued in p.m.


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