70 years ago: Hong Kong's wartime diaries
30 Mar 1942, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp
Submitted by brian edgar on Mon, 2012-01-23 18:51Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Mon, 30 Mar 1942A day of torrential rain.
Journalist Gwen Dew and eleven other Americans are summoned to Japanese Headquarters. The group includes four other journalists, three Red Cross representatives and one Canadian.
Head of Foreign Affairs, Oda (Dew calls him Ota) gives them the first official news of the American repatriation. At this stage it's expected soon, and is limited to this small group, but over the next three months it will come to include almost all the Hong Kong Americans.
Source:
Gwen Dew, Prisoner Of The Japs, 1944, 140
30 Mar 1942, R. E. Jones Wartime diary
Submitted by Admin on Fri, 2012-02-10 16:29Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Mon, 30 Mar 1942News good in general & more optimism evident.
Rained.
Started shorthand.
Hill & I got over our campitis.
Shaved whiskers off.
30 Mar 1942, Ron Brooks
Submitted by Admin on Mon, 2012-05-14 21:57Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Mon, 30 Mar 1942AJ Savitsky completes a portrait of Ron (Roland) Brooks in his Fire Brigade uniform, drawn on brown wrapping paper:
Portrait of RHJ Brooks in uniform, by AJ Savitsky in Stanley Prison Camp, 1942., by Suziepie30 Mar 1942, Colin Luscombe
Submitted by Admin on Wed, 2012-05-16 20:31Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Mon, 30 Mar 1942AJ Savitsky completes a portrait of Colin Luscombe:
30 Mar 1942, Barbara Anslow's diary
Submitted by Admin on Tue, 2016-04-05 15:49Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Mon, 30 Mar 1942Pain in chest and heart feeling tired.
30 Mar 1942, Eric MacNider's wartime diary
Submitted by Admin on Fri, 2017-02-17 13:32Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Mon, 30 Mar 1942Sudden change of weather – very wet & rather cold
Death – at K.W. Hosp. Albert, son of J.J. Osborne
