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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.

  • 27 Jan 1945, Barbara Anslow's diary

    Submitted by Admin on Sun, 2012-04-22 22:07
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    Barbara Anslow's diary
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    Sat, 27 Jan 1945

    Some internees arrested for liquor selling, and one found - so rumour says - in Stanley Village at 1am.

    Requiem Mass for air raid victims.

    Rumour that Russians are 90 miles from Berlin.

    Eggs selling at 38 yen each.

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

    Submitted by Admin on Fri, 2015-01-02 12:30
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    R. E. Jones Wartime diary
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    Sat, 27 Jan 1945

    Drizzly, NE wind.

    Guards picked up Scott, Ward & Channing for trading but it seems to be purely local. ((There are several possibilities for each of these names, so I'm not sure which three he is referring to.))

    Went to Prep. school clearing clogged pipes. Had a meal there too. Like ours but more of it.

    Yesterdays paper not worth reading.

    Russians breaking thro’ Posen area are now 30 mls inside Germany according to latest notes from North.


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