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29 Jan 1942, Harry Ching's wartime diary

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Submitted by Admin on Sat, 2013-01-05 22:21
Book / Document: 
Harry Ching's wartime diary
Date(s) of events described: 
Thu, 29 Jan 1942

((Following text not dated, but probably refers to 29th Jan - see Brian's comments below))

More banks paid off to depositors, $50 each. Included Hongkong and Shanghai Bank and National City Bank. 

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Submitted by brian edgar on Tue, 2013-07-16 01:42.

This seems to have been January 29. Two Chinese missionaries, Alice Lan and Betty Hu, went over to the HKSBC Building from Kowloon and queued up all day but the crowds were so great they got nothing. They finally got to the counter on their third trip on February 3, but found that the 50 dollars was only a little more than the three journies had cost them.

Lan and Hu, We Flee From Hong Kong, 45-47