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72 years ago: Hong Kong's wartime diaries

72 years ago: Hong Kong's wartime diaries

5 Aug 1942, Barbara Anslow's diary

Posted: 22 Feb 2012 03:22 AM PST

Book / Document: 
Barbara Anslow's diary
Date of events described: 
Wed, 1942-08-05

Kowloon said to have been bombed, and that public hadn't been allowed to go to Kowloon on Monday because Japs said there was bombing.

Paper says Prof. Robertson, who has been working in  Bacteriological Institute in city all along, has died.

James Mason died in Indian Quarters this afternoon; according to rumour, he has Chinese family outside and had been trying to get them in here.

5 Aug 1942, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

Posted: 04 Jul 2012 07:12 AM PDT

Book / Document: 
R. E. Jones Wartime diary
Date of events described: 
Wed, 1942-08-05

Fine day.

Went for swim.

No news. (Later. German advance in Russia stopped. Chemical bombs being dropped with devastating effect by us. A three pronged drive being made by us via Thailand, Burma & China)

Several people who have proved self-support left the Camp.

5 Aug 1942, Ella Buuck's wartime diary

Posted: 20 Jul 2012 04:43 AM PDT

Book / Document: 
Ella Buuck's wartime diary
Date of events described: 
Wed, 1942-08-05

Walter's birthday. I wonder where he might be.

The weather is finally getting better and better and calmer. This evening Mrs. Ziegler and Rev. Thode had a visit and beer with us.

There are many toys and plenty youngsters there. We were told there are 150 below 13 years of age.

5 Aug 1942, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp

Posted: 31 Jul 2012 06:17 AM PDT

Book / Document: 
Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp
Date of events described: 
Wed, 1942-08-05

5 Aug 1942, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp

Posted: 21 Jun 2014 01:35 AM PDT

Book / Document: 
Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp
Date of events described: 
Wed, 1942-08-05

M. L. Bevan's diary entry:

Bailey and Cole moved to Bungalow E. Mason died.

Cole is presumably A. L. Cole of the Colonial Secretary's Office, and Bailey is probably C. T. Bailey, who served under Bevan (Deputy Director of ARP) as an Air Raid Precautions Training Officer.

Bungalows D, E, F were all in use at first and 'E' was associated with Public Works Department staff; for unknown reasons 'D' and 'E' were closed down and then opened in 1943 for the previously uninterned health workers ('D') and bankers ('E').

Mason was Joseph Mason, who died of heart failure in bed in the Indian Quarters.

 

Eighteen people are 'guaranteed out' of Stanley. Four are American and most or all of the rest British. The Americans are E. F. Gingle, Dr. Frank Molthen,'Red' Sammons and Miss Dorrer.

Sources:

Bevan Diary: Imperial War Museum 523.1 (Bevan) 58132, Typescript of Diary

Cole and Bailey:

 http://www.hongkongwardiary.com/searchgarrison/nonuniformedcivilians.html#_ftn4

Death of Mason: Geoffrey Emerson, Hong Kong Internment, 1973, 271

Mason's first name:  https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/stanley_camp/conversations/messages/1659

Out: Maryknoll Diary, August 5, 1942

Note:

Dr. Molthen was one of Hong Kong's first chiropractors, and he's said to have treated General and Madame Chiang Kai-shek. During the hostilities he showed himself adept at scuttling ships.

'Red' Sammons had worked for Gingle as a manager.

5 Aug 1942, Eric MacNider's wartime diary

Posted: 17 Jul 2014 12:06 AM PDT

Book / Document: 
Eric MacNider's wartime diary
Date of events described: 
Wed, 1942-08-05

14 people left camp (incl. Mrs. Proulx, 2 Proulxs, Gosling, Kynoch, Manning, Gingles,"Doc" Molthen, Miss Dosser ((sp?)), Mrs. Simmonds.)

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