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.
8 Jan 1943, R. E. Jones Wartime diary
Submitted by Admin on Tue, 2013-01-08 18:02Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Fri, 8 Jan 194308 Jan 1943, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp
Submitted by brian edgar on Sat, 2015-11-28 17:52Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Fri, 8 Jan 1943Up at Shamshuipo the POWs are woken at 6.30 by a bugler blowing the 'fall in' at the double. They stumble out of bed and into their clothes and make their way to the parade square. They find that the Japanese are changing the Camp Commandant. It will now be Lieutenant Wada, former head of North Point POW Camp, just returned from three months in Japan.
Opinions of Wada will differ, but most accounts suggest he brought as much humanity to Shamshuipo as he could. It's certain that the death rate wil never be as high as in the dreadful year of 1942.
Source:
Tony Banham, We Shall Suffer There, 2009, Friday 8 January 1942
08 Jan 1943, Eric MacNider's wartime diary
Submitted by Admin on Tue, 2017-01-03 15:59Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Fri, 8 Jan 1943Moring's “Uncle Ned's Cabin”
