5 Aug 1942, Barbara Anslow's diary
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Submitted by Barbara Anslow on Wed, 2012-02-22 19:22
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Wed, 5 Aug 1942
News came in today, and discounted, that the troops, and/or folk at St Theresa's Hospital Kowloon had been sent over to Hong Kong. Kowloon said to have been bombed, and that public hadn't been allowed to go to Kowloon on Monday because Japs said there was bombing.
First rain for about 2 months.
Paper says Prof. Robertson, who has been working in Bacteriological Institute in city all along, has died.
James Mason died in Indian Quarters this afternoon; according to rumour, he has Chinese family outside and had been trying to get them in here.
