70 years ago: Hong Kong's wartime diaries
4 Oct 1942, Barbara Anslow's diary
Submitted by Admin on Sun, 2012-03-04 10:51Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Sun, 4 Oct 1942Heard that some of our troops had gone away. Saw the fat 'Tatakuma Maru' going out.
This evening Mrs Drown and Heath played. People humming softly to Schubert's 'Ave Maria', 'Today I feel so happy', 'Cheek to Cheek', and roaring out 'We're going to sail away'; then a quick 'I want to be happy' - and 'Rule Britannia', everyone yelling out that Britons never would be slaves.
4 Oct 1942, R. E. Jones Wartime diary
Submitted by Admin on Mon, 2012-10-01 11:01Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Sun, 4 Oct 1942Fine day.
Odds & ends of news arrived but it is not worth repeating.
4 Oct 1942, Eric MacNider's wartime diary
Submitted by Old Man on Tue, 2014-07-08 23:01Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Sun, 4 Oct 1942(Wittenbach) ("Render unto Caesar.....")
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04 Oct 1942, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp
Submitted by brian edgar on Mon, 2015-03-30 21:27Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Sun, 4 Oct 1942The Kamakura Maru delivers 32,940 Red Cross parcels to Hong Kong.
The ships is carrying people involved in a primarily diplomatic exchange of prisoners. It also bears the ashes of midget submariners who died during a raid on Sydney Harbour on May 31, 1942. After these reach Japan in October and are returned to the families, Radio Tokyo calls their return by the Australians a chivalrous act that greatly impresses Japan.
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