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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.

  • 29 Dec 1942, Barbara Anslow's diary

    Submitted by Barbara Anslow on Tue, 2012-03-13 18:32
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    Barbara Anslow's diary
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    Tue, 29 Dec 1942

    Pasty today.

    Spent afternoon preparing for the doctors' party wearing pink dress ((we office girls had been invited)), but when time came to go I felt unable to, can never feel at ease at these affairs, so didn't. I heard there would be dancing and was certain I would be one of the unchosen that hadn't the courage to go. After Dorothy and Olive and Norah (Witchell) had gone, Norah was so nice, she came back to try to get me to change my mind.  Olive said ((after)) it was mainly mass dances and lots of eats. I don't really regret not going – except for the food.

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  • 29 Dec 1942, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Fri, 2012-12-14 15:32
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    R. E. Jones Wartime diary
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    Tue, 29 Dec 1942

    Colder.

    Chair & Cushion cover.

    ((G.))


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