72 years ago: Hong Kong's wartime diaries |
- 21 Mar 1942, R. E. Jones Wartime diary
- 21 Mar 1942, Barbara Anslow's diary
- 21 Mar 1942, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp
| 21 Mar 1942, R. E. Jones Wartime diary Posted: 10 Feb 2012 12:25 AM PST Book / Document: R. E. Jones Wartime diary Date of events described: Sat, 1942-03-21 Russia has all Ukraine. Total war declared on Germany & occupied France. Counter-attack by Allies in Burma. Three Jap big ships sunk? All this news makes us very optimistic. |
| 21 Mar 1942, Barbara Anslow's diary Posted: 08 Mar 2012 06:31 AM PST Book / Document: Barbara Anslow's diary Date of events described: Sat, 1942-03-21 Cholera inoc. Fried bread in peanut oil in a sardine tin - delicious. Egg ration today - Mum and I boiled ours. |
| 21 Mar 1942, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp Posted: 20 Mar 2012 05:25 AM PDT Book / Document: Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp Date of events described: Sat, 1942-03-21 Gwen Priestwood and Walter Thompson leave behind Stanley Mound as soon as it gets dark on March 20. They find the taps are working in a deserted bungalow and this solves the water problem for the moment. The proceed cautiously northwards up the Tai Tam Road. As dawn approaches they take shelter in another abandoned bungalow. Priestwood sleeps but is woken by a white-looking Thompson, who tells her that three Japanese soldiers are approaching. They hide in an alcove just off the kitchen, covering themselves in old newspapers. Eventually they emerge, as the soldiers seem to have left: A window near us opened, and a Japanese apparently left behind stuck in his head within four feet of us. He started to climb in - and then, in the nick of time, there came another shout from below. He stopped, turned, yelled something, and ran down the path. That night they find a junkmaster, who, after an initial refusal, agrees to take them to the mainland. They end up at the fishermen's Tin Hau temple at Joss House Bay, a favourite meeting place for Chinese guerillas. From there they will be taken into China, eventually arriving in the wartime capital of Chungking (Chongqing).
The Epstein party board a junk that will take them from Lantau to Macao. Sources: Priestwood: Gwen Priestwood, Through Japanese Barbed-Wire, 1944, 77; George Wright-Nooth, Prisoner of the Turnip Heads, 1994, 111-112 Epstein: My China Eye, 2005, 149 |
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