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72 years ago: Hong Kong's wartime diaries

72 years ago: Hong Kong's wartime diaries


30 Mar 1942, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp

Posted: 23 Jan 2012 02:51 AM PST

Date of events described: 
Mon, 1942-03-30

A day of torrential rain.

Journalist Gwen Dew and eleven other Americans are summoned to Japanese Headquarters. The group includes four other journalists, three Red Cross representatives and one Canadian.

Head of Foreign Affairs, Oda (Dew calls him Ota) gives them the first official news of the American repatriation. At this stage it's expected soon, and is limited to this small group, but over the next three months it will come to include almost all the Hong Kong Americans.

Source:

Gwen Dew, Prisoner Of The Japs, 1944, 140

30 Mar 1942, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 12:29 AM PST

Book / Document: 
R. E. Jones Wartime diary
Date of events described: 
Mon, 1942-03-30

News good in general & more optimism evident.

Rained.

Started shorthand.

Hill & I got over our campitis.

Shaved whiskers off.

30 Mar 1942, Ron Brooks

Posted: 14 May 2012 06:57 AM PDT

Date of events described: 
Mon, 1942-03-30

AJ Savitsky completes a portrait of Ron (Roland) Brooks in his Fire Brigade uniform, drawn on brown wrapping paper:

30 Mar 1942, Colin Luscombe

Posted: 16 May 2012 05:31 AM PDT

Date of events described: 
Mon, 1942-03-30

AJ Savitsky completes a portrait of Colin Luscombe:

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