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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.

  • 06 Nov 1944, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Thu, 2014-12-18 16:22
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    R. E. Jones Wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Mon, 6 Nov 1944

    Dull, drizzly, E wind.

    Cookhouse construction & wood chopping.

    Lorry with wood & fresh fish 4pm.

    Rumania severed dip. relations with Japan as from 31st Oct.

    With Steve pm

    (Parcels in town?)

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  • 06 Nov 1944, Eric MacNider's wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Fri, 2015-11-27 14:15
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    Eric MacNider's wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Mon, 6 Nov 1944

    Issue of 1/2 oz, suk yin ¥3.00

    Turnips & pak tsoi from communal garden.

    Heath

    ((Barbara Anslow's memories of the communal garden:

    Earlier in internment the prewar football pitch near Married Quarters and American Quarters became a vegetable garden, divided up into little plots as individual gardens for internees.   We Redwoods had a tiny plot there.   But there came a time when we were told that the entire pitch was to be used as a communal garden to supplement our poor rations.

    Its management was taken over by our camp council.

    We hastily dug up our precious peanut plants, and ate the peanuts although they were not mature.))


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