72 years ago: Hong Kong's wartime diaries |
- 2 Aug 1942, Barbara Anslow's diary
- 2 Aug 1942, R. E. Jones Wartime diary
- 2 Aug 1942, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp
- 2 Aug 1942, Ella Buuck's wartime diary
- 2 Aug 1942, Eric MacNider's wartime diary
| 2 Aug 1942, Barbara Anslow's diary Posted: 22 Feb 2012 03:15 AM PST Book / Document: Barbara Anslow's diary Date of events described: Sun, 1942-08-02 Olive and I went to tea with Mary and Peggy Taylor and Sheila Bruce. ((Peggy's husband - not in Stanley - being Mary's brother)). Jim Johnson (Police) there too. He thinks, another 2 years of this - he isn't usually wrong about politics etc. Old Mrs Williamson died this afternoon.  |
| 2 Aug 1942, R. E. Jones Wartime diary Posted: 04 Jul 2012 07:10 AM PDT Book / Document: R. E. Jones Wartime diary Date of events described: Sun, 1942-08-02 Rained. Plenty of news which confirms that received last week.  |
| 2 Aug 1942, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp Posted: 17 Jul 2012 05:25 AM PDT Book / Document: Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp Date of events described: Sun, 1942-08-02 Death of Mary Williamson, aged 75. Mrs. Williamson's grandson, Douglas Harvey Collins-Taylor, was killed in action at Stanley Village while fighting with the HKVDC on December 25, 1941. They are memorialised on the same post-war grave stone in the Military Cemetery.
Even before they've arrived back home, the Americans are bringing news of events in Hong Kong to the outside world. An article with today's date by Vaughn Meissling (from Lourenco Marques where the Americans changed ships) provides perhaps the first account ever published of the genesis of a scheme to provide every internee with a 'seventy five dollar parcel'. Meissling tells his readers that, due to the scarcity of medicines, food and clothing, the Red Cross representative (Arthur M.) Fifer, a Stanley internee, and some Americans outside camp devised a plan to get a loan to enable the internees to buy supplies. An informal committee of Americans, British and Japanese was set up to implement the plan, and, once the loan was secured, the purchasing was done entirely by Americans. The items were brought from Hong Kong stores and brought into camp on trucks by Dr. Selwyn-Clarke and members of his staff. Items provided included shoes, socks, medicines, dried fruits and many other kinds of foodstuff. Sources: Death: Geoffrey Emerson, Hong Kong Internment, 1973, 271 Panama City New Herald, August 2, 1942, page 10 Notes: 1) For the arrival of the '75 dollar parcels' in Stanley see, for example, http://gwulo.com/node/10378 and http://gwulo.com/node/10367 The Americans got theirs before the June 29/30 repatriation, while most of the British August. 2) The main (perhaps only) purchaser was Chester Bennett, and some or all of the items were obtained from the Department Store Habade in the French Bank Building. This account seems well-sourced and probably establishes that the money from the parcels came from the American Red Cross, not, as some sources claim, the Japanese. American internee Norman Briggs claims that 'a wealthy Iranian ship owner in Hong Kong by the name of Namazee' was involved in completing the deal. Emily Hahn knew Nemazee (as she calls him) so might have been one of the uninterned Americans involved in the plan. Other likely candidates are some of the delivery drivers – http://brianedgar.wordpress.com/2012/04/12/thomass-work-6-more-on-the-delivery-drivers/ - and, of course, the bankers.
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| 2 Aug 1942, Ella Buuck's wartime diary Posted: 20 Jul 2012 04:39 AM PDT Book / Document: Ella Buuck's wartime diary Date of events described: Sun, 1942-08-02 Today is Grandpa Buuck's birthday. We had private communion service this a.m. in Thode's cabin and children's service this p.m. There is a movie this evening but I don't like them and it's so cold everybody is shivering. It's 43 out on aft deck. And do we ever dip up and down! Many are sick, we are still doing all right but Lenny complains at times and my head gets heavy as lead at times.  |
| 2 Aug 1942, Eric MacNider's wartime diary Posted: 17 Jul 2014 12:03 AM PDT Book / Document: Eric MacNider's wartime diary Date of events described: Sun, 1942-08-02 (Johnstone) / M. Dow Death of Mrs. Mary Williamson (75)  |
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