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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.

  • 30 Apr 1942, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Tue, 2012-03-13 15:51
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    R. E. Jones Wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Thu, 30 Apr 1942

    Cookhouse all day.

    Germans throwing down their arms on the Russian Front?

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  • 30 Apr 1942, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp

    Submitted by brian edgar on Thu, 2012-11-22 17:16
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    Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Thu, 30 Apr 1942

    The Japanese finally grant permission for a small number of internees to go to the French Hospital (aka St. Paul's) in Causeway Bay for X-rays. They go in the Red Cross truck and are only allowed to stay a few days.

    While they're there, Dr. Selwyn-Clarke does his best to give them as good a time as possible. They're allowed to take a certain amount of supplies back into Stanley, so Hilda Selwyn-Clarke, assisted by her friend the writer Emily Hahn, becomes a 'shopper for Stanley camp's three thousand plus', scouring the streets for bargains to make the funds 'mysteriously' produced by Selwyn-Clarke go as far as possible.

    Sources:

    Maryknoll Diary, April 30

    Emily Hahn: China To Me, 1986 ed (1944) 359

    Note:

    Writing during the war, Hahn had to keep the source of funds for these supplies 'mysterious'. In fact the money was either given to Selwyn-Clarke or to the uninterned bankers by friendly Chinese, Indians or neutrals, or raised by the bankers through secret loans. All of these people ran huge risks to carry out this relief work.

  • 30 Apr 1942, Barbara Anslow's diary

    Submitted by Barbara Anslow on Tue, 2016-04-05 16:07
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    Barbara Anslow's diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Thu, 30 Apr 1942

    Mum better still. She had custard today.  We had lovely pastry at tiffin and sweet potato in evening.


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