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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 Jul 1943, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp

    Submitted by brian edgar on Thu, 2012-06-07 17:00
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    Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Mon, 26 Jul 1943

    Matron E. M. B. Dyson sends a letter home:

    Dearest Mother,

    Glad to tell you that all members of the unit are fit and fairly well, but in excellent spirits, facing this life with cheerful courage, making full use of this enforced holiday by language courses, lectures, commercial and art classes, camp fatigues, all types of housework from laundry to kitchen, walking, the more robust swim, but games definitely too strenuous nowadays....Weight now nine and a half stones...

     

    Uninterned American writer Emily Hahn and Yvonne Ho are dining with General Suginamini. The General assures them that the Americans are in no position to bomb Hong Kong - they have plenty of planes in Chungking, but not enough petrol.

    Sources:

    Dyson: Nicola Tyrer, Sisters In Arms, 2008, 66

    Hahn: Emily Hahn, China To Me, 1986 ed., 412

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  • 26 Jul 1943, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Sun, 2013-06-30 03:56
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    R. E. Jones Wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Mon, 26 Jul 1943

    Initials for Dave Mann am.

    Swim with Bonnie aft. Cup of tea but nothing to say on return.

    Talk with Steve & Canteen list pm.

    4 Pkts.Cig.

    Rained heavily early am.

    Heard women & children & men over military age to leave 17th Aug. Exchange post. God. Other men to leave shortly after. Canadians?


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