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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.

  • 5 Aug 1944, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Fri, 2014-06-06 12:01
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    R. E. Jones Wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Sat, 5 Aug 1944

    Overcast, raining.

    Ground rice.

    Good ration of veg. arrived.

    Jap paper poor for news today, reviews & composite results mostly, says a lot but tells us nothing.  Yonai tells Japan that present air-raid shelters are inadequate. Chief of Jap Naval General Staff resigned.

    With Steve pm more digging & planting turnips.

    Italian General takes over CinC of forces in Italy.

    Chris, after many boils all over her is now getting better.

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  • 5 Aug 1944, Eric MacNider's wartime diary

    Submitted by Old Man on Wed, 2014-07-02 12:33
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    Eric MacNider's wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Sat, 5 Aug 1944

    Club - Jenner, McLeod, Pearson, Eileen Grant, 3 Wilkinsons, Mace ((Not sure which McLeod he is referring to, but Barbara Anslow identifies the 3 Wilkinsons as "teenage sisters Joan, Maureen and Marjorie who sang as a trio,they had lovely voices."))

    Road from gaol ((unclear, maybe "gates"?)) to cemetery closed

    BO


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