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72 years ago: Hong Kong's wartime diaries

72 years ago: Hong Kong's wartime diaries


14 Apr 1942, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

Posted: 13 Mar 2012 12:30 AM PDT

Book / Document: 
R. E. Jones Wartime diary
Date of events described: 
Tue, 1942-04-14

Russians getting on OK but not around Warsaw or Danzig. British captured Bengazi & are rushing troops etc to Eastern Med. to make new front.

Last of P.O. people arrived.

14 Apr 1942, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp

Posted: 09 Apr 2012 03:04 AM PDT

Date of events described: 
Tue, 1942-04-14

Mr. J. Owens of the Merchant Service and Mrs. S. M. Owens have a girl.

Sources:

China Mail, September 15, 1945, page 3

Stanley Roll

Note:

According to a record cited by Cindy Yik-yi Chu this girl, who weighed seven and a half popounds, was the first American born in Stanley (Foreign Communities in Hong Kong, 2005, 146.)

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