72 years ago: Hong Kong's wartime diaries |
| 4 Nov 1943, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp Posted: 03 Aug 2012 01:15 AM PDT Book / Document: Date(s) of events described: Thu, 4 Nov 1943 A talk by Miss P. A. Ayrton does NOT take place. It was to be called 'Confessions of A Militant Suffragette' but was banned by the Japanese authorities perhaps because of the word 'militant'.
Leslie Steyn reports from Port Elizabeth, South Africa, giving brief statements form some of the Gripsholm repatriates. Emily Hahn says the Japanese are bad winners and worse losers, while Dr. Jim Henry, formerly of Lignan University and Hong Kong, says that the Chinese are dying like flies from starvation in the streets of Canton. Canadian F. F. Sullivan states that the prison camp in Hong Kong is 'the worst in the Far East'. Steward Carl Morgan reveals that the passengers were never served rice and fish on the voyage as that was what they'd been living on for the previous two years. Source: Poster in M. L.Bevan's Album, Imperial War Museum 69/6/1 The Lowell Sun, November 4, 1943, page 13 |
| 4 Nov 1943, R. E. Jones Wartime diary Posted: 26 Oct 2013 02:48 AM PDT Book / Document: Date(s) of events described: Thu, 4 Nov 1943 Fine. No news. Japs report attempted air-raid on N.Ts. by 20 & then 40 planes. Bungalows being searched? |
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