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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.

  • 9 Feb 1942, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Sat, 2011-12-31 21:37
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    R. E. Jones Wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Mon, 9 Feb 1942

    Not much doing today. No home news. Ex Indian old broken furniture auctioned off at ridiculous high prices. (Cane chairs $1 new going for $5) Cold & damp. Latrine trench.

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  • 9 Feb 1942, Barbara Anslow's diary

    Submitted by Admin on Mon, 2012-01-09 09:53
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    Barbara Anslow's diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Mon, 9 Feb 1942

    Notable for fried fish in a.m., and pasty in evening.

  • 9 Feb 1942, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp

    Submitted by brian edgar on Sun, 2012-01-22 23:22
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    Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Mon, 9 Feb 1942

    Today the first term of schooling in Camp begins.

     

    The Temporary Committee meeting hears a letter from Dr. Selwyn-Clarke expressing grave concern at the appearance of early signs of malnutrition amongst the internees and recommending a universal medical examination.

     

    The American community meets at 2 p.m. in the Club House Rooms and various reports are read. The Japanese have offered everyone with a bank account in Hong Kong $50 for food, but this is declined.

     

    The newly-built American kitchen is opened.

     

    It's the most nervous day in Jan Marsman's life. Tomorrow he begins his escape.

    Sources:

    Schooling: Geoffrey Emerson, Hong Kong Internment, 1973, 189

    Temporary Committee: John Stericker, Captive Colony, 1945, Chapter IV, page 12

    Meeting, kitchen: Maryknoll Diary, February 9, 1942

    Marsman: Jan Marsman, I Escaped From Hong Kong, 1942, 191

     

  • 09 Feb 1942, W J Carrie's wartime diary

    Submitted by pxb09 on Mon, 2019-08-26 19:31
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    W J Carrie's wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Mon, 9 Feb 1942

    Dearest, it is now 9/2/42.  It is very difficult to write these days.  We have a certain amount of communal labour to do and that seems to take most of one's energy - then one has only to wait from one meal to the next.  I do the cooking for the 3 of us and make tea for the whole flat.  We have porridge as an extra for tiffin and then boil up the leftover rice from tiffin and dinner into a pudding for dinner. I never want to eat rice again!

    Cheero Darling. I can't write more now.       B


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