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 Jul 1945, Barbara Anslow's diary
Submitted by Barbara Anslow on Fri, 2012-06-01 10:36Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Wed, 4 Jul 1945Doreen for shorthand.
Worked in afternoon, typed much of Catholic Youth Magazine. Father Hessler sick.
Went to see Mr Burnett with my 'exercise' - 400 words about camp life. He said it wasn't bad.., but to me it sounded like a school composition compared to his which he read to me as a sample. He has offered to help me with narration, and told me to report on the food queue as if writing a letter, and he will criticise it.
Clifton went into hospital.
04 Jul 1945, R. E. Jones Wartime diary
Submitted by Admin on Tue, 2015-06-30 16:52Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Wed, 4 Jul 1945Another US Independence Day.
Cloudy, hot, showery. S wind.
Window in Lep.
Awfully fed up am.
(Rumours. Enough British troops in Luzon to re-take Singapore & HK. Chinese warned to be ready for an attack on Colony. Chungking & Red Armies converging on Ning Po)
Dug potatoes pm 7lbs Gs ∴
