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 Apr 1944, R. E. Jones Wartime diary
Submitted by Admin on Fri, 2014-03-07 22:08Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Tue, 4 Apr 1944Wet, windy & miserable.
Ground rice for bread.
Food carrying.
German lesson.
Steve still bad.
(Germany caved in? Odessa captured? Nimitz force landed in Formosa? Selwyn-Clark executed?)
4 Apr 1944, Harry Ching's wartime diary
Submitted by Admin on Tue, 2014-04-15 14:27Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Tue, 4 Apr 1944((Following text not dated:))
Indian goats go by frequently. Large herd coveted. Alleged refused Y300 for one.....Bicycles and rickshas good business. Pillion cycles familiar sight, Y3 from ferry to Valley.
04 Apr 1944, Eric MacNider's wartime diary
Submitted by Admin on Tue, 2017-04-04 14:48Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Tue, 4 Apr 1944I weighed 131 lbs.
