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.
6 Oct 1942, R. E. Jones Wartime diary
Submitted by Admin on Mon, 2012-10-01 11:13Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Tue, 6 Oct 1942U.S. established big airfield in W. Aleutians ready to bomb Japan. Swatow & Amoy turned over to W.C.W.s by Japs. ((Brian Edgar explains: W.C.W.s were supporters of the pro-Japanese Chinese Government led by Wang Ching Wei.))
General meeting.
Rice cut 10%.
6 Oct 1942, Eric MacNider's wartime diary
Submitted by Old Man on Tue, 2014-07-08 23:03Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Tue, 6 Oct 1942New Kitchen utensils arr. in Camp
06 Oct 1942, Barbara Anslow's diary
Submitted by Barbara Anslow on Wed, 2016-04-13 17:39Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Tue, 6 Oct 1942No French lesson because Sister Mary has a fever. So I went to see Mabel and tripped in the gutter en route and made a mess of my knee.
No rumours today.
