20 Jul 1942, Barbara Anslow's diary | Gwulo: Old Hong Kong

20 Jul 1942, Barbara Anslow's diary

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Mon, 20 Jul 1942

Electricity still off in some quarters.

Mabel has pain in throat, Dr. Hackett said it might be an incipient quinzy, she has been given gargle.

We have acquired a camp bed for Mabel through one of the young RC priests.  ((Up to then, she'd still been sleeping on piled-up suitcases)).

Shanghai people are supposed to be leaving us for Shanghai if they can get the money for their fare from this end.

Paper today says that ships coming to take 1800 Britishers from Nippon etc., but I don't think it means us.