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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.

  • 26 Mar 1945, Barbara Anslow's diary

    Submitted by Barbara Anslow on Mon, 2012-05-07 17:08
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    Barbara Anslow's diary
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    Mon, 26 Mar 1945

    Men went to town for charcoal.

    2 air raid alarms.

    Rehearsal in P.O. Club in morning – hopeless!

    Lecture on Burma Road by Owen Evans, most interesting, over 2,000 miles long; Evans stayed in a house where Gene Stratton Porter lived and wrote 'Freckles.'

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  • 26 Mar 1945, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Mon, 2015-02-23 00:26
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    R. E. Jones Wartime diary
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    Mon, 26 Mar 1945

    Bright & warmer pm.

    Party to town for charcoal.

    Finished Jap oven.

    2 A/r alarms. US planes around & 1 slowly flew over this area, low & unmolested.

    Saucepan for S.H. & made myself a trowel.

    Paper had no war news whatever. German High Command changed Ronstadt out, Kesselring in & Jap boasting re re-taking what they have lost. Spain declines to carry on looking after Jap interests in Europe.

  • 26 Mar 1945, Eric MacNider's wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Thu, 2016-03-17 15:44
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    Eric MacNider's wartime diary
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    Mon, 26 Mar 1945

    Charcoal brought by internee from Bowen Rd. Hosp (vacant) (last orderly officer - Dr Duncan)


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