72 years ago: Hong Kong's wartime diaries |
- 3 Jan 1942: RE Jones Diary
- 3rd & 4th Jan 1942. Barbara Anslow's diary
- 3 Jan 1942, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp
| Posted: 23 Dec 2011 09:47 PM PST Book / Document: R. E. Jones Wartime diary Date of events described: Sat, 1942-01-03 Radio confiscation not true. Gear being brought into gaol by some of the chaps & they are spoiling other people's stuff in the process.  |
| 3rd & 4th Jan 1942. Barbara Anslow's diary Posted: 26 Dec 2011 06:47 AM PST Book / Document: Barbara Anslow's diary Date of events described: Sat, 1942-01-03 - Sun, 1942-01-04 Pauline's birthday (she was Tony's fiance in Australia) so Tony & I celebrated by going to Prince's Cafe and having coffee and 3 hotcakes each - wonderful! Queen's Road was made into a kind of market. Shops weren't open, but stalls lined the road and you could buy almost anything ((if you had money)). Amah came twice, with most of our best clothes, and Olive's trousseau finery, which I took to her in HK Hotel. Tommy Maycock and Mr Himsworth took clothes to Mum at Queen Mary Hospital.  |
| 3 Jan 1942, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp Posted: 30 Nov 2013 01:48 AM PST Book / Document: Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp Date of events described: Sat, 1942-01-03 Phyllis Harrop, living with other Government officials in the Prince's Building, tries to go for a walk: It is almost impossible to walk along Queen's Road, due to the crowds of Chinese and the hawker stalls. The people are wandering about, some aimlessly, others with a look of astonishment on their faces at this whole ghastly mess, which is worse than tragedy. Words cannot express the feeling that what has been accomplished in a hundred years (this year was our centenary) has completely crumbled in a few days, almost one might say within twenty-four hours. A well-ordered city reduced to a state of lawlessness. Harrop notes that there are 'marked signs of anti-British feeling amongst the Chinese people'. And the British, it seems, are all wondering when and where they will be interned. Source: Phyllis Harrop, Hong Kong Incident, 1943, 100-101  |
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