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.
5 Mar 1942, R. E. Jones Wartime diary
Submitted by Admin on Fri, 2012-02-10 16:12Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Thu, 5 Mar 1942Got 60 cigs today, original price 48cts, now $10.
Blumenthal had box of cigs brought by Jap officer. He, Whitley & Woodward working on cars in Prison for Japs. ((Probably G Whitley, a policeman, though there was also a Norman Whitley in camp. Similarly, G Woodward was another policeman, though there was also a W Woodward in camp.))
Fine day. Poor rations. Blum. & MacCutch went to town with Japs & brought back some purchases.
5 Mar 1942, Barbara Anslow's diary
Submitted by Admin on Thu, 2012-03-08 22:10Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Thu, 5 Mar 1942Tonight we cooked porridge on chatty in room - not bad. ((Chatty a makeshift affair in the empty fireplace in our room.))
05 Mar 1942, Eric MacNider's wartime diary
Submitted by Admin on Wed, 2016-03-02 01:50Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Thu, 5 Mar 1942Workers' rations ceased. (i.e. extra rice plus 1/2 slice bread).
