72 years ago: Hong Kong's wartime diaries |
- 23 Jun 1944, R. E. Jones Wartime diary
- 23 Jun 1944, Eric MacNider's wartime diary
- 23 Jun 1944, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp
| 23 Jun 1944, R. E. Jones Wartime diary Posted: 21 May 2014 12:53 AM PDT Book / Document: Date(s) of events described: Fri, 23 Jun 1944 Rain & heavy cloud. Cleared up 4pm. Flaherty buried, & in a coffin too. Many moons since coffins were seen, rice bags are the usual thing. (The wood was more or less stolen for this coffin anyway?) Allies approaching Cherbourg 21st. Battle on 87mls front intensified in Italy 20th. Viipuri evacuate by Finns 20th. No news of S Pacific or Burma again today. Poor food due to yesterdays non arrival of rations, & it doesn't seem that they made up for it today. Still rubbing in "new weapon" & now are threatening New York with trans-Atlantic super-rockets. Changsha occupying Jap attention at present per paper. Small quantity of mutton available in town, the first in two years, Y40 per catty, or 2/4 per oz. Yarn with Mary. Some camp yarns very malicious & dangerous. Joan tells of going into Prison & seeing Indian head hung on a wall. ((Not sure which Joan he is referring to.)) Vic Garten's "Vaudeville" not so good. H.M.King with Sir R. Campbell in Normandy 16th. |
| 23 Jun 1944, Eric MacNider's wartime diary Posted: 24 Jun 2014 05:41 AM PDT |
| 23 Jun 1944, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp Posted: 09 Jul 2015 02:31 AM PDT Book / Document: Date(s) of events described: Fri, 23 Jun 1944 Father Bernard Meyer buries M. J. Flaherty in a Roman Catholic service. George Wright-Nooth regards the euology as excessive and the revelation of words spoken between the dying man and his confessor as inappropriate. Source: George Wright-Nooth, Prisoner of the Turnip Heads, 1994, 215-216 Note: for the prelude to today's events see yesterday's entry.
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