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 Jun 1945, Barbara Anslow's diary
Submitted by Barbara Anslow on Thu, 2012-05-24 20:07Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Sun, 3 Jun 1945Swimming with Peggy, Gladys Johnson and Beryl Goldenberg.
Bridge with Rowell and Brown.
New ration scale on paper - meat once a week, cut in oil.
3 Jun 1945, Eric MacNider's wartime diary
Submitted by alexis on Sat, 2014-06-28 14:45Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Sun, 3 Jun 1945Banns - G.C.F. Crofton & G.T. Jex
Dow ("Impatience; anxiety") / Myhill ("Church & Kingdom")
New scale of rations announced
03 Jun 1945, R. E. Jones Wartime diary
Submitted by Admin on Sat, 2015-05-30 10:27Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Sun, 3 Jun 1945Cloudy, hot.
Rails for Gs garden.
Funk-holes being provisioned.
New scales of rations issued, oil 75% less, salt 50% less, but we are to have meat 2oz per day with a slight increase in veg. issue.
Oil, tea, salt & sugar issued.
Order re all Internees bowing on arrival of “rubbish” at outside roll-call cancelled.
New scale rations Cancelled 10th June Rice.16oz. Veg 10½oz. Meat 1¾ oz daily.
Oil. 3oz Salt 1¾oz . Beans 10½ oz every 10 days.∴C
