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72 years ago: Hong Kong's wartime diaries

72 years ago: Hong Kong's wartime diaries

7 Jul 1942, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

Posted: 26 Jun 2012 01:47 AM PDT

Book / Document: 
R. E. Jones Wartime diary
Date of events described: 
Tue, 1942-07-07

Repatriation yarn all rot.

$75 parcels being issued.

Rec. $14 from Taylor. ((Barbara Anslow: The 'Taylor' who gave Mr Jones money would be Mr A.J.C. Taylor of the Hong Kong Treasury. I record in diary of 8th July that my sister Olive and I each received $15 from him, so this seems to have been an official handout to civil servants in camp.))

(2nd Front to be opened. America to send more s/ms to Pac. & Med. Churchill sends for G.O.C. Lybia [sic] to explain loss of Tobruk. Chinese have 20,000 Japs bottled up around Canton?)

7 Jul 1942, Ella Buuck's wartime diary

Posted: 03 Jul 2012 01:44 AM PDT

Book / Document: 
Ella Buuck's wartime diary
Date of events described: 
Tue, 1942-07-07

We are still here and is it hot! What a relief it will be when we once get moving.

They took on fresh water and allowed us to use it all day. They warned us that it would be our last chance for a bath. All people were busy washing etc. Only salt water baths in the future.

The white crosses are big and plain to see.

They fixed up slides on top deck for the children and they do have a swell time now. Bobby would go up and down for hours if I'd help him and stay with him.

We had a long talk with Mr. Arndt last night. ((Was Mr Arndt from Hong Kong, or had he joined from one of the other locations?))
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