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72 years ago: Hong Kong's wartime diaries |
6 Dec 1941. R. E. Jones Wartime diary Posted: 27 Dec 2011 07:24 PM PST Book / Document: Date of events described: Sat, 1941-12-06 A few drinks in the Club for a change
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6 Dec 1941, Barbara Anslow's diary Posted: 25 Jan 2012 01:05 PM PST Book / Document: Date of events described: Sat, 1941-12-06 Sunny. Race Day. Had just settled down to work in Puckle's office when Olive appeared with Arthur - unbeknown to R.S. ((Royal Scots)), another Band had arranged to do the Races. I left work at 7pm, then Arthur and I to Peninsula for tea, then to King's 'My Life with Caroline.'
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6 Dec 1941, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp Posted: 02 Mar 2012 08:05 AM PST Book / Document: Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp Date of events described: Sat, 1941-12-06 A day of bright sunshine. Many of the HKVDC leave Barbara Redwood their offices to take part in weekend exercises. Crowds flock to Happy Valley for the races. is taken to the cinema to see 'My Life With Caroline' by her boyfriend Arthur, a bandsman with the Royal Scots who has a day's leave. They watch a newsreel with comforting images of US planes 'in formidable formation'. In the evening the 'Tin Hat Ball' is held at the Peninsula Hotel: the purpose is to help raise the £160,000 which would complete the purchase price of a bomber squadron the people of Hong Kong had presented to Britain. Kowloon homemaker Ellen Field is at the Ball with her husband: It was a glorious evening; the women enchanting, the men elegant and handsome in their uniforms and decorations....We were not thinking about the war. Right then we were preoccupied with Christmas. But just before midnight T. B, Wilson, President of the American Steamship Line, announces that any men connected with ships in harbour need to report on board for duty 'at once'. Sources: HKVDC, Ball: John Luff, The Hidden Years, 1967, 14 Races, Cinema: Mabel Winifred Redwood, It Was Like This..., 2001, 68-69 Field: Ellen Field, Twilight In Hong Kong, 1960, 9 Note: Ellen Field's husband Frank and her father ended up in Shamshuipo. Field stayed out of Stanley with her young daughters by pretending to be Irish. Working with Selwyn Selwyn-Clarke, and helped by the Japanese interpreter Kiyoshi Watanabe, she organised relief for the POW Camp. Unknown to Rev. Watanabe, and with Selwyn-Clarke turning a blind eye, she was involved in the organisation of a number of escapes from Hong Kong.
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6 Dec 1941, Sheridan's diary of the hostilities Posted: 13 Oct 2012 06:31 AM PDT Book / Document: Date of events described: Sat, 1941-12-06 However, we have just had two Regiments of Canadians arrive to help out in the defence of the Crown Colony. ((The Canadians came on November 16.)) Two Canadian Army Service Corps Sgts. are attached to the Supply Depot. I show them round the Bakery. ((The RASC Supply Depot and Bakery were on Queen's Rd., the latter opposite the Naval Dockyard entrance.)) They are surprised to see 33 Chinese bakers working so hard. The Canadians arrival means extra bread production, it is now about 12 to 14000 lbs per day, not bad for a bakery with only a mechanical dough mixer and all the remainder hand work. If we move out the dough mixer will be left behind, it is cemented to the floor and needs electric power to drive it. We read in the local papers that large landings of Japanese troops have been sighted up the coast towards Bias Bay and Waichow area. Also in the same papers it states that Mr Kurusu and Admiral Nomuru of the Japanese Navy are in Washington as a peace mission. I am roped in to escort civilian lorries from the Dairy Farm cold storage at East Point to the various food stores and to some private houses in the Shouson Hill area. ((There were food stores at various locations around the island. We've found mentions of them at Quarry Bay, Wanchai Gap, and Stanley.)) They are loaded with tinned commodities, flour, sugar, tea, etc. We work from early morning until darkness sets in and move many tons of foodstuff with the aid of hundreds of coolies.
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6 Dec 1941, A. H. Potts' wartime diary Posted: 06 Dec 2012 01:34 AM PST Book / Document: Date of events described: Sat, 1941-12-06 On Saturday, the air was electric with rumours but nothing was done in the way of mobilizing.
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