72 years ago: Hong Kong's wartime diaries |
| Posted: 23 Dec 2011 10:03 PM PST Book / Document: R. E. Jones Wartime diary Date of events described: Mon, 1942-01-26 Fish soup high & pork soup fatty & no bread so I'm hungry tonight. Wandered around the hillsides where Marj, Blackie and I used to go. |
| 26 Jan 1942, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp Posted: 12 Jan 2012 05:47 AM PST Book / Document: Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp Date of events described: Mon, 1942-01-26 American missionaries Robert and Helen Hammond and their family (their baby Edith, Mrs. Hammond's parents, Albert and Rose Reiton and their younger daughter Esther) have been hiding in a Kowloon flat. Eventually they write a letter asking the authorities to arrange for their internment. After 46 days they see the first Japanese enter their home: a General and his interpreter. After expressing his amazement that they have passed so long without being looted, the General tells them, to be ready the next day.
By this date a Camp canteen, for the sale of extra rations, has been proposed and agreed by the Japanese. But it will be some time before it actually exists. Sources: Hammonds: Robert Hammond, Bondservants of the Japanese, 1957 (originally 1942), 48-49 Canteen: G. B. Endacott and Alan Birch, Hong Kong Eclipse, 203 |
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