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 1943, R. E. Jones Wartime diary
Submitted by Admin on Thu, 2013-02-28 22:30Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Fri, 5 Mar 1943Dreamt of being hanged by Plumb & Steve, watching machine gun fire & being at school & of Rosen & me having a turn to do at Hall’s wedding with guitar & mandoline.
((G.))
Walk with Steve pm.
((G.))
Eve called.
((Comments on Jones' vivid dream:
- I've seen it noted that Jones was a hangman at the prison.
- Jones had prison-officer colleagues named Plumb, Stevens and Rosen, so I've assumed they're the people mentioned here.
- Hall was about to be married - see tomorrow's entry in Jones' diary. But there's no mention if Jones did play any music at or after the wedding ceremony.))
05 Mar 1943, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp
Submitted by brian edgar on Sun, 2015-07-12 18:10Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Fri, 5 Mar 1943At Shamshuipo the entire camp attends a play written by one of the prisoners. The Golden Road is set soon after a time everyone's yearning for: the end of the war. A POW rushes home to be re-united with his fiancee but discovers she's married someone else:
Her explanation that 'two years is a long time' was greeted by the audience with the tense silence of men who recognized in it a horrible truth.
Source:
Andro LInklater, The Code of Love, 2000, 120
