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72 years ago: Hong Kong's wartime diaries

72 years ago: Hong Kong's wartime diaries

16 Feb 1942, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

Posted: 31 Dec 2011 05:43 AM PST

Book / Document: 
R. E. Jones Wartime diary
Date of events described: 
Mon, 1942-02-16

Asst. Electrician today & taking lamps from Ind. Qtrs for use in flats with none were reported to the Japs. Were taken inside and led to believe we were to be beheaded. Sure a frightening twenty minutes.

Released after Marvin repaired a radio in the Prison. I don't want an experienced (sic) like that again.

16 Feb 1942, Barbara Anslow's diary

Posted: 08 Jan 2012 06:00 PM PST

Book / Document: 
Barbara Anslow's diary
Date of events described: 
Mon, 1942-02-16

For almost a week I've been well fed, and if that stops, I shall have at least have had this little building-up.

Not hard work at the hospital, a little shorthand and typing, somewhere comparatively warm to sit - and hospital rations, which I live for.   ((Hospital rations were better than at Married Quarters because when nurses and patients left Queen Mary Hospital for Stanley, they managed to bring much of their dry kitchen stock which helped to supplement the rations for some months.  Also, being a tiny community the food was better cooked.))
 
The reason we non--resident staff like me are on hospital rations is because mealtimes in the other blocks would have come in the middle of our working shifts.
 
Today there was a special edition of the Hong Kong paper announcing that Singapore had surrendered unconditionally.  We didn't buy it, ((quite cheap, but money was short)).  I've been sleeping in bed with Mum for past few nights because it's so cold.
 
We have finished the remainder of the sausages cold - I ate all the fat scrapings neat. Our stores now consist of sugar, milk powder, a tin of jam and tin of pineapple, and pork and beans.  I think we should save one of the latter till Mabel comes, but Olive is very hungry and Mabel may not come for ages.

16 Feb 1942, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp

Posted: 10 Jan 2012 10:29 PM PST

Book / Document: 
Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp
Date of events described: 
Mon, 1942-02-16

Dr. Talbot gives cholera and typhoid injections to the Americans.

 

The fall of Singapore is announced in Hong Kong, accompanied by much rejoicing among the victors.

Sources:

Talbot: Maryknoll Diary, February 16, 1942

Singapore: John Luff, The Hidden Years, 1967, 171.
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