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72 years ago: Hong Kong's wartime diaries

72 years ago: Hong Kong's wartime diaries

13 Sep 1943, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

Posted: 25 Aug 2013 07:15 AM PDT

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R. E. Jones Wartime diary
Date(s) of events described: 
Mon, 13 Sep 1943

Fine & dry.

Paper makes light of yesterdays raid as usual.

Bit of singing with Phil at St Stephens. ((Who is Phil?))

Sold guitar Y50.

Talk with Steve pm. ((G))

13 Sep 1943, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp

Posted: 04 Jun 2014 01:47 AM PDT

Book / Document: 
Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp
Date(s) of events described: 
Mon, 13 Sep 1943

 

Franklin Gimson records in his diary entry for today a long talk with Duncan Sloss. The Representative of the Internees is looking forward to post-war reconstruction, and he's disgusted by the attitude of the mercantile community - 'They cannot appear to consider any other world than the one in which they can make money and retire'. He is confident that 'the pride of the youth of Britain' is not sacrificing itself 'for the securing of (the Hong Kong merchants') ill-gotten dividends'.

 

Today's Waichow Intelligence Summary (WIS 46, sheet 3 - the BAAG digest of intelligence) has this report about a former internee:

A reliable informant who has just returned from the Colony says that whilst there towards the end of August he saw MR. A. MORRIS at liberty. MORRIS is a former Headmaster of KING'S College (Gov. Education Dept.) and Chief of St. John's Ambulance in HONGKONG. He is said to have been released from STANLEY over a year ago on account of his advanced age and possibly on the guarantee of AW BUN HAW ((more usually Aw Boon Haw, aka 'the Tiger Balm King')), with whom he was connected after leaving St. John's Ambulance when he ran the N. T. Relief Organisation which was financed  by AW.
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