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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.

  • 4 Nov 1943, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp

    Submitted by brian edgar on Fri, 2012-08-03 16:15
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    Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Thu, 4 Nov 1943

    A talk by Miss P. A. Ayrton does NOT take place. It was to be called 'Confessions of A Militant Suffragette' but was banned by the Japanese authorities perhaps because of the word 'militant'.

     

    Leslie Steyn reports from Port Elizabeth, South Africa, giving brief statements form some of the Gripsholm repatriates.

    Emily Hahn says the Japanese are bad winners and worse losers, while Dr. Jim Henry, formerly of Lignan University and Hong Kong, says that the Chinese are dying like flies from starvation in the streets of Canton. Canadian F. F. Sullivan states that the prison camp in Hong Kong is 'the worst in the Far East'.

    Steward Carl Morgan reveals that the passengers were never served rice and fish on the voyage as that was what they'd been living on for the previous two years.

    Source:

    Poster in M. L.Bevan's Album, Imperial War Museum 69/6/1

    The Lowell Sun, November 4, 1943, page 13

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  • 4 Nov 1943, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Sat, 2013-10-26 17:48
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    R. E. Jones Wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Thu, 4 Nov 1943

    Fine.

    No news.

    Japs report attempted air-raid on N.Ts. by 20 & then 40 planes.

    Bungalows being searched?

  • 04 Nov 1943, Eric MacNider's wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Tue, 2015-11-10 16:24
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    Eric MacNider's wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Thu, 4 Nov 1943

    No concert.

  • 04 Nov 1943, Diary of George Gerrard in Stanley Internment Camp Hong Kong

    Submitted by Alison Gerrard on Sun, 2019-03-24 16:45
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    Diary of George Gerrard in Stanley Internment Camp Hong Kong
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Thu, 4 Nov 1943

    Tonight I received two glorious and loving letters of 29th Nov and 13th Dec 1942 and its grand to know that you were fit and well and getting on all right. Letters a year old are the usual thing but I am fortunate in comparison with some internees who have either never received a letter or like G. Rodger who has only received one from his wife and that was dated over 18 months ago. Actually your 5th January letter I received on the 26th August, 2 1/2 months ago.

    We received terrible news on Tuesday 2nd November when a bulletin was issued by Mr Gimson Camp Commandant that he had been officially informed by the Jap Authorities that the following internees who were arrested some time ago had been executed: Messers Fraser, Scott, Hall, Bradley, Rees, Waterton and Hyde and that prison sentences were given to W.J.Anderson (Andy), J.L.Anderson and F.Roberts 15 years each and Edmonston 10 years.

    It was a terrific shock to everyone and the whole camp was depressed, we are not allowed to hold memorial services for these poor chaps. They were shot on the 29th October Friday not far from here.


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