72 years ago: Hong Kong's wartime diaries

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18 May 1943, R. E. Jones Wartime diary Posted: 28 Apr 2013 07:05 AM PDT Book / Document:  R. E. Jones Wartime diary Date(s) of events described:  Tue, 18 May 1943 Rained off roof 5.30am. Showery all day. To beach am. ((G)) Steve to rehearsal. Attu Island captured. Bocca Tigris raided twice. ((G))

18 May 1943, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp Posted: 04 Jan 2014 12:17 AM PST Book / Document:  Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp Date(s) of events described:  Tue, 18 May 1943 Jacobus Van der Laan, a Dutch banker living at the Sun Wah Hotel, sends a message to his parents-in-law (who are looking after his young daughter): Since September 1941 no news telegraphed different times. Hope you can manage otherwise apply Headoffice. We both good health no reply Sourabaya. lovekisses (punctuation and spacing sic; Van der Laan had been trying unsuccessfully to contact relatives in another camp, Soerabaja) Source: David Tett, Captives in Cathay, 2007, 318

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