Wednesday, April 2, 2014

72 years ago: Hong Kong's wartime diaries

72 years ago: Hong Kong's wartime diaries


3 Apr 1942, Barbara Anslow's diary

Posted: 24 Jan 2012 04:43 AM PST

Book / Document: 
Barbara Anslow's diary
Date of events described: 
Fri, 1942-04-03

Feeling rotten, and Mum still staying in bed.

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

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 07:41 AM PST

Date of events described: 
Fri, 1942-04-03

Another birth - to Mr. and  Mrs. Morris, a girl.

 

United Church Services notice:

Good Friday;

Service of Meditation on the Seven Words from the Cross...12 noon - 3 p.m.

Conducted by the Rev. Dr. P. Beaver.

Speakers:- Revs. Wittenbach, Short, Rankin, Bechtel, Alton, Ady & Richards.

(All Worshippers are not expected to remain during the whole of the Service, but it is requested that they will leave only during the singing of one of the hymns.)

 

Uninterned banker Andrew Leiper and his wife Helen wake up to the anniversary of their engagement. Instead of celebrating, they have to go to the dentist: Helen fractured a filling on a hard object in her rice a couple of days ago, and the pain is agonising. Mr. Iishi,  a civilian supervising the liquidation of the bank, arranges for an armed guard to take them to the office of a Chinese dentist trained in America. While there, they meet a polite naval officer who tells them of his reluctance to fight the British.

Sources:

Birth: China Mail, September 15, 1945, page 3

Church: Jim Shepherd, Silks, Satins, Gold Braid and Monkey Jackets, 1996, 61

Leiper: Andrew Leiper, A Yen For My Thoughts, 1982, 145-146

 

3 Apr 1942, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

Posted: 13 Mar 2012 12:24 AM PDT

Book / Document: 
R. E. Jones Wartime diary
Date of events described: 
Fri, 1942-04-03

News good if true. Reinforcements landed in Philipines.

3 Apr 1942, Harry Ching's wartime diary

Posted: 13 Mar 2013 06:13 AM PDT

Book / Document: 
Harry Ching's wartime diary
Date of events described: 
Fri, 1942-04-03

New passes for Third Nationals to be applied for. All over ten must have passes.

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