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72 years ago: Hong Kong's wartime diaries |
30 Dec 1941. R. E. Jones Wartime diary Posted: 22 Dec 2011 11:06 PM PST Book / Document: Date of events described: Tue, 1941-12-30 Retrieved as much gear as possible from our Qts. & placed it all in D Block. The Japs are to occupy our flats. (I saved all I could sweetheart & said Goodbye for us both to our first little home, maybe we'll get back there yet dear) (We are all worried now because none of you down there know what has happened to us. I hope you are bearing up Marj dear).
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30th Dec 1941. Barbara Anslow's diary Posted: 26 Dec 2011 06:44 AM PST Book / Document: Date of events described: Tue, 1941-12-30 Ah Ding ((our family amah)) appeared at the (guarded) front door of Tai Koon and asked for me. She was very upset because our flat had been entered by the Japs who had taken mattresses and blankets, and my new red coat material (bought 7th Dec.) as a blanket. She had orders to leave our flat.
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30 Dec 1941, Harry Ching's wartime diary Posted: 29 Dec 2012 05:50 AM PST Book / Document: Date of events described: Tue, 1941-12-30 A newspaper appeared, in English - The Hongkong News. Principal news item was a report of Sunday's victory parade. It declared, "Great Britain's century-old base of aggression at Hongkong has now fallen, and one piece of the glorious settlement of the Greater Asian war has been successfully completed." My sister and her daughter Florrie came home, escorted to the door by our Director of Medical Services, Dr Selwyn-Clarke. In the afternoon the smashed water meter at the gate began leaking, and with loud shouts we rushed with a rubber hose to siphon a bucketful. We were not disappointed; supply was being resumed.
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30 Dec 1941, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp Posted: 05 Dec 2012 03:41 AM PST Book / Document: Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp Date of events described: Tue, 1941-12-30 The last Japanese soldiers leave Maryknoll House in the early hours of this morning. The Fathers report that the city water goes on again today - it was working in Victoria yesterday, but they're down in Stanley. They need plenty of it as they're cleaning up. George Wright-Nooth and the rest of his police station, acting under orders given yesterday, leave for the Gloucester Hotel. While there, an 'informal mess' system evolves between him and five other officers: everything but sentimental possessions is shared. There are changes of personnel - for example, one of the original half dozen, W. P. Thompson escapes - but the principle is kept throughout internment - 'we became practical communists and in our case it worked' About 7,000 prisoners from West Brigade (and the navy) assemble in Victoria in the early morning. They are taken by ferry to Kowloon and then to the former barracks at Shamshuipo, which is now their prison camp. Two thousand men from East Brigade are still at Stanley - they're told they'll be taken to their new camp tomorrow. Doctors Newton and Gosano are busy in Argyle Street Camp: Doctor Newton did great work among the wounded also Dr. Casano (sic). They scrounged some ether and did operations by the score, one after the other with practically no kit. Under the headline Hongkong British Fight Way Out In Launches page one of The Daily Express reports Chan Chak's 'great escape': EIGHTY-TWO Britons and Chinese made a fighting escape from Hongkong on Christmas Eve, the day the island garrison gave in, Chungking radio disclosed last night. Led by one-legged Admiral Chang, ((sic)) Chinese liaison officer in Hongkong, the escaping party manned six launches. ((The escape and surrender were of course on Christmas Day.)) As far as the coverage of Hong Kong in The Daily Mirror and The Daily Express goes, this report � a left-over from the fighting � is pretty much it for the next 9 weeks or so - understandably, as reliable news of any kind will be hard to come by. But the next time Hong Kong makes the headlines will be March 10/11, and the news will be deeply upsetting to all those with loved ones there: Sources: Maryknoll: Maryknoll Diary, December 30, 1941 Wright-Nooth: George Wright-Nooth, Prisoner Of The Turnip Heads, 2004, 76-77 Shamshuipo: Tony Banham, Not the Slightest Chance, 2003, 285 Doctors: Diary of Staff-Segeant James O'Toole, R. A. O. C.: http://www.far-eastern-heroes.org.uk/James_OToole/html/dairy_1941.htm
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