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 May 1942, R. E. Jones Wartime diary
Submitted by Admin on Mon, 2012-04-23 21:59Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Thu, 28 May 1942Finished in the Cookhouse.
Feet swollen again.
Canton captured?
28 May 1942, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp
Submitted by brian edgar on Tue, 2015-01-27 00:54Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Thu, 28 May 1942Margaret Watson, Deputy Chairman of the International Welfare Committee, issues a notice confirming that the recent margarine issue was communal not individual. The IWC is clearly having problems: two days ago it posted a notice complaining that some internees had sold products issued to them as welfare - only 'one or two' cases had been reported, but 'anything of the kind cannot be too strongly deprecated'.
Source;
MacNider Papers, 'Court/I.W,C./Rumours', 45
28 May 1942, Barbara Anslow's diary
Submitted by Barbara Anslow on Tue, 2016-04-05 16:25Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Thu, 28 May 1942Mum came home yest.
Frightfully hot.
