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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 Sep 1942, Barbara Anslow's diary

    Submitted by Barbara Anslow on Mon, 2012-02-27 11:46
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    Barbara Anslow's diary
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    Fri, 4 Sep 1942

    We each received HK$5 from the Vatican.  Olive has already sent hers to Topper, Mabel and I intend to send ours to the boys tomorrow. (('The boys' were Arthur Alsey and Harry (Sid) Hale, Royal Scots, also in Shamshuipo Camp.))

    We were all inoculated against cholera.

    Got enamel plate from Welfare, and some white material.  ((No crockery, cutlery or bedding was supplied by the Japs - you just used whatever you were able to bring in to camp, or improvised.))
     
    Olive had one big row with Miss D. Geen (Assistant Matron at hospital), ended with tears and apologies, and Miss Geen saying what a wonderful girl Olive was.

    Notice on pros and cons of repatriation came round.  The gist was (among other things) that Mr Gimson had laid before the Japs a scheme  of repatriating 1,000 (women, children, aged and infirm); that any scheme the Japs would consider would embrace the large majority of us.

    Most people here think it means we won't be going.

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  • 4 Sep 1942, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Thu, 2012-08-30 21:49
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    R. E. Jones Wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Fri, 4 Sep 1942

    Russians breaking through German lines in places. Chinese within 22mls of Canton.

  • 4 Sep 1942, Eric MacNider's wartime diary

    Submitted by Old Man on Tue, 2014-07-08 22:35
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    Eric MacNider's wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Fri, 4 Sep 1942

    Cholera innoculation*

    Gift of $5 per person from the Pope


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