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 Aug 1945, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp
Submitted by brian edgar on Fri, 2012-05-18 23:07Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Thu, 9 Aug 1945The Hongkong News publishes a Tokyo syndicated report which announced the Vatican's condemnation of the atomic bomb.
A second bomb is dropped on Nagasaki.
Source:
John Luff, The Hidden Years, 1967, 223.
9 Aug 1945, Eric MacNider's wartime diary
Submitted by alexis on Tue, 2014-07-29 19:28Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Thu, 9 Aug 1945Five well-dressed Chinese visited jail & hosp.
09 Aug 1945, R. E. Jones Wartime diary
Submitted by Admin on Tue, 2015-06-30 17:34Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Thu, 9 Aug 1945Cool, overcast. SE wind, squally.
Dismantled Sisters’ Qrts. chatty.
Formosans doing plenty of exercises lately, bayonet fighting etc.
(landing on 10 ml. Front nr. Tokio. Germany to pay 2,000 million US$. 56% to Russia, 22% US & 22% to Britain. All Germans to return to Germany)
To lecture with G. Phycology. ∴
New Moon.
09 Aug 1945, Barbara Anslow's diary
Submitted by Barbara Anslow on Tue, 2016-07-05 11:01Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Thu, 9 Aug 1945Having day off, though feeling much better.
