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.
09 Oct 1944, R. E. Jones Wartime diary
Submitted by Admin on Thu, 2014-11-20 21:31Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Mon, 9 Oct 1944Warm, cloudy. E wind, gusty.
Carried bricks 1568lbs.
Ramp with cigs getting worse. 1 Pkt cigs = 1 tin Kam (Renny)[?] Perhaps I’ll be in a position to repay the “good turn” one day. (Page 190. Z. Grey’s “Call of the Canyon”)
Lorry in with wood, fish & some canteen stuff.
3 papers.
Russians in Belgrade 5th.
Oil 64 Yen in town.
With Steve pm.
M lent me Y30.
Tresise passed me a packet of cigs.
09 Oct 1944, Eric MacNider's wartime diary
Submitted by Admin on Mon, 2016-09-05 12:24
