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 Aug 1944, Barbara Anslow's diary

Submitted by Admin on Mon, 2012-04-16 17:21

Book / Document:
Barbara Anslow's diary
Date(s) of events described:
Wed, 30 Aug 1944
Mabel's 21st birthday. She and I locked the door and ate a plateful each of fried sweet potatoes and rice bread with some paste I'd saved. We were real gluttons.
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30 Aug 1944, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

Submitted by Admin on Thu, 2014-06-12 20:25

Book / Document:
R. E. Jones Wartime diary
Date(s) of events described:
Wed, 30 Aug 1944
Showery. Wind SE.
Rice arrived. 4,000 bags.
Chief topic today is parcels.
Turkey & Spain Portugal & Switzerland sever Dip. relations with Vichy 27th. Advances made in France & Russian Front. Focsani in Rumania captured 26th. Increased raids on Japs northern islands. Troyes captured 27th. De Gaulle to church service in Notre Dame in Paris 26th. Hungarians having trouble with Rumanians. They captured German General Staff in Bucharest. Russia makes demands on Bulgaria.
Steve on rice carrying party pm.
7pm roll-call is an order from Tokyo.
Getting impatient & fed up again, hungry as usual. Imagine all kinds wonderful food.
Marseilles & Toulon captured. Mountbatten has been home & reported that enough of Burma has been captured to enable Allies to keep routes open to Chungking at the cost of 10,000 killed, 3,000 missing, 250,000 sick.
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