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72 years ago: Hong Kong's wartime diaries

72 years ago: Hong Kong's wartime diaries


13 Mar 1942, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 12:21 AM PST

Book / Document: 
R. E. Jones Wartime diary
Date of events described: 
Fri, 1942-03-13

96,000 Germans caught at Smolensk.

Women & kids evac'd from Ceylon.

USA & Aust. to send us food.

C.S. ((probably 'Colonial Secretariat'?)) & G.P.O. staff arrived in Camp.

Rice 8ozs. Meat 1.4oz. fish .68oz veg. bread 36 per loaf 1.33oz. 658 adults & 30 infants (13.4ozs)

13 Mar 1942, Barbara Anslow's diary

Posted: 08 Mar 2012 06:21 AM PST

Book / Document: 
Barbara Anslow's diary
Date of events described: 
Fri, 1942-03-13

Dorothy Deakin & some Colonial Secretary's staff arrived in camp (some already here).

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