72 years ago: Hong Kong's wartime diaries

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• 16 Apr 1942, Barbara Anslow's diary
• 16 Apr 1942, R. E. Jones Wartime diary
• 16 Apr 1942, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp

16 Apr 1942, Barbara Anslow's diary Posted: 24 Jan 2012 04:53 AM PST Book / Document:  Barbara Anslow's diary Date of events described:  Thu, 1942-04-16 Newspaper says we are to have $100 each.  Now I don't return to (work at) hospital till Monday. Good extra soup tonight.

16 Apr 1942, R. E. Jones Wartime diary Posted: 13 Mar 2012 12:31 AM PDT Book / Document:  R. E. Jones Wartime diary Date of events described:  Thu, 1942-04-16 All quiet, nothing doing. Finished my shoes. Bit of sunbathing.

16 Apr 1942, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp Posted: 20 Mar 2012 06:00 AM PDT Book / Document:  Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp Date of events described:  Thu, 1942-04-16 In response to recent escapes the Japanese begin to erect a barbed-wire fence which will eventually run through the garden of Bungalow C and cut it in half. the Bungalow's inhabitants ask the Chinese foreman to approach the Japanese with a view to keeping the garden inside the camp so that they can tend to the graves of the Allied soldiers buried there. Hea grees to do so, but the Japanese refuse. Source: George Wright-Nooth, Prisoner of the Turnip Heads, 1994, 113

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