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72 years ago: Hong Kong's wartime diaries

72 years ago: Hong Kong's wartime diaries

18 Feb 1942, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

Posted: 31 Dec 2011 05:45 AM PST

Book / Document: 
R. E. Jones Wartime diary
Date of events described: 
Wed, 1942-02-18

HK celebrated fall of Singapore now known as Bhosan Port.

Prof. Gordon King supposed to have escaped & told the world of our ill-treatment. If true I hope it does some good.

Now that Jap has Singapore & everything seems favourable for an AXIS victory I don't suppose anything anyone does will help us any. Food not so good today. Our only hope now is that Germany gets a beating, & very soon.

18 Feb 1942, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp

Posted: 11 Jan 2012 06:41 AM PST

Book / Document: 
Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp
Date of events described: 
Wed, 1942-02-18

Elections for a British Communal Council (to replace the Temporary Committee) are held. The elections are held according to a division of the Camp into eight districts or 'blocks', his time more government officials are elected.

A week later six people elected to represent the Camp as a whole, including L. R. Nielsen and B. Wylie.

Note: see also entry for March 2, 1942

Sources:

Geoffrey Emerson, Hong Kong Internment, 2008, 10

Philip Snow, The Fall of Hong Kong, 2003, 136

G. B. Endacott and Alan Birch, Hong Kong Eclipse, 1978, 208, 352

Note: Snow wrongly dates these elections as February 8.

18 Feb 1942, Barbara Anslow's diary

Posted: 11 Jan 2012 09:33 PM PST

Book / Document: 
Barbara Anslow's diary
Date of events described: 
Wed, 1942-02-18

Ash Wednesday, but we were too late waking up to go to the church service.

Lovely pork.

Walk in evening with Mum who gave me verbal cooking lessons - we both enjoyed these meals in our imagination.

((An explanation of the canteen in Stanley:-  Limited supplies of prized food were sent into camp, and sold usually twice weekly - if you had money, which was very limited as people hadn't been paid since fighting ended. Each person was only allowed to buy so much of a particular item. 

Huge queues at the first canteens - Olive and I took turns keeping a place for hours; when our turn came at last there was little choice, we just got a tin of Instant Postum which turned out to be a delicious drink.

In due course canteen days were well organised so that every person had a shopping turn once in so many sessions, so that the wealthiest couldn't buy up all that was available every time.))
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