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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.

  • 28 Jan 1945, Barbara Anslow's diary

    Submitted by Barbara Anslow on Sun, 2012-04-22 22:08
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    Barbara Anslow's diary
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    Sun, 28 Jan 1945

    Air raid alarm at tiffin-time, but heard no noise.

    My voice gave out at choir today – hopeless.

    Hardly any rations - just beans and greens for both meals.

    While I worked in afternoon, gramophone recital in office. ((Sunday))

    Planted N.Z. spinach - given by Mr. A. R. Cox.

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

    Submitted by brian edgar on Sun, 2013-12-29 02:07
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    Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp
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    Sun, 28 Jan 1945

    There is a service at 9.45 a.m. to mark the third anniversary of the united Protestant celebrations (see Chronology, January 25, 1942).

    Frank Short, Chairman Stanley Ministers and Clergy, has previously advertised the service by circulating  'A Message to all Christians in Stanley.' part of which reads:

    Many people have had a clearer vision of God and of duty than was theirs before internment.....Many facing the future today are aware of little but the small things of life that will be possible once again. The old round and routine is to be resumed.

    Now, unless life has come to mean more to us than it did prior to internment we have not 'redeemed our time,' we have wasted it. Each one must face for himself the question, 'After internment, what?'

    God has nothing greater to give to man than the gift of life wih its truly amazing range of opportunity and of service...are you going to give yourself to the battle that will continue ceaselessly after the present battle is over, the achievement of the Kingdom of God upon earth?

    Source:

    David Faure, A Documentary History of Hong Kong: Society, 1997, Kindle Edition, Location 4752

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

    Submitted by Admin on Fri, 2015-01-02 12:31
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    R. E. Jones Wartime diary
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    Sun, 28 Jan 1945

    Cold, overcast. NE wind.

    Clayed in chatty for Mrs W.

    Workshop.

    Steve gave me 3 Pkts. cigs.

    No news today.

    Colder pm.

    Pasties pm meal, excellent.

    Tarlac captured 20th, also airfield to the E.

    Bl. mkt. cigs up to Y25 due to lack of supplies.

    Full moon.

  • 28 Jan 1945, Eric MacNider's wartime diary

    Submitted by Grace on Thu, 2015-01-29 14:23
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    Eric MacNider's wartime diary
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    Sun, 28 Jan 1945

    Short (3rd anniversary service) / Dow


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