72 years ago: Hong Kong's wartime diaries |
- 31 May 1942, Barbara Anslow's diary
- 31 May 1942, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp
- 31 May 1942, R. E. Jones Wartime diary
| 31 May 1942, Barbara Anslow's diary Posted: 03 Feb 2012 07:57 PM PST Book / Document: Barbara Anslow's diary Date of events described: Sun, 1942-05-31 Mum getting stronger day by day. Photo in newspaper of tiger caught in Stanley; yesterday there were rumours about tigers being loose and being seen - they must have been true. There are said to be another, and cubs, and a leopard loose - I think from circus. |
| 31 May 1942, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp Posted: 09 Feb 2012 03:28 AM PST Book / Document: Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp Date of events described: Sun, 1942-05-31 Slept very badly owing to stomach trouble. During the night we were woken by three rapid shots and much shouting. Soon the Camp can talk of little else. The tales grew bigger and bigger, and so did the tiger.
Meanwhile, Sir Vandeleur Grayburn, living with his wife and about 80 other bankers and family members at the Sun Wah Hotel, tells the unadorned truth in a letter with today's date that will be posted by an American repatriate to his daughter Elizabeth: (W)eight dropped from 200 to 160 lbs. Mary is somewhat thinner. Our cubicle is tiny, we sleep on a single mattress. Had no proper bath since December. These words are blacked out by the Japanese censor. Source: Tiger: Diary of George Wright-Nooth, cited in Prisoner of the Turnip Heads, 1994, 97 Edith Hansom, in Allana Corbin, Prisoners of the East, 2002, 184, 182 Grayburn: David Tett, Captives in Cathay, 2007, 291-2. Note: John Stericker dates these shots to Saturday, May 30, but I think Wright-Nooth's diary is more likely to be correct, as Stericker telescopes the whole incident into one day. John Stericker, A Tear for the Dragon, 1958, 197 |
| 31 May 1942, R. E. Jones Wartime diary Posted: 23 Apr 2012 07:01 AM PDT Book / Document: R. E. Jones Wartime diary Date of events described: Sun, 1942-05-31 Hot, breeze from S.W. No news. Cemetery wall. |
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