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.
3 Jan 1944, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp
Submitted by brian edgar on Sat, 2012-11-17 23:16Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Mon, 3 Jan 1944News from 49,000 Far East captives
A further batch of about 49,000 postcards and letters from prisoners of war and civilian internees in Japanese hands has reached Britain within the last few days and been delivered.
Approximately 56 per cent, of the mail came from camps In Thailand (Siam), and about 15 per cent, from Java and Sumatra, the remainder being from camps In Japan, Hong Kong, occupied China, Korea, Formosa and Burma.
Source: Daily Mirror, page 2
3 Jan 1944, R. E. Jones Wartime diary
Submitted by Admin on Mon, 2013-12-30 16:16Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Mon, 3 Jan 1944Fine but cloudy.
Good news in Jap paper, 2,000 ton bomb raid on Berlin, Japs admit being on defensive, & Germans evacuate to point about 55 mls from Polish border.
Walk with Steve pm.
