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72 years ago: Hong Kong's wartime diaries

72 years ago: Hong Kong's wartime diaries

15 Aug 1942, Barbara Anslow's diary

Posted: 22 Feb 2012 05:29 AM PST

Book / Document: 
Barbara Anslow's diary
Date of events described: 
Sat, 1942-08-15

Jap paper says Berlin reports that 'Eagle' has been sunk.

Softball match tonight on the Indian Quarters Green, men dressed in various Stanley fashions - one in a hula skirt, one in Mae Westish costume,  played against a regular girls' team. Later, community singing there.

Police have made gardens now in front of the block to which they have been moved, and there's a V-shaped piece of land in a corner, a V planted inside it. (('V' for Victory!))

15 Aug 1942, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

Posted: 09 Jul 2012 06:33 AM PDT

Book / Document: 
R. E. Jones Wartime diary
Date of events described: 
Sat, 1942-08-15

Sugar 5/- per lb. Soap 6/- per bar. Condensed milk £1.0.0. per tin.

No news.

Four people's estimation of duration of internment: 2yrs, 6 to 12mths, 2mths & one who is certain of repatriation. ((They would remain interned for another three years.))

1lb sugar, ½ bar of washing soap & 3 small boxes of inferior matches cost me the equivalent of 8/6d. today.

15 Aug 1942, Ella Buuck's wartime diary

Posted: 20 Jul 2012 05:00 AM PDT

Book / Document: 
Ella Buuck's wartime diary
Date of events described: 
Sat, 1942-08-15

Leonard has been swimming twice today. We took a snap at the pool. It's getting hotter.

15 Aug 1942, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp

Posted: 30 Dec 2012 05:28 AM PST

Book / Document: 
Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp
Date of events described: 
Sat, 1942-08-15

The Maryknoll Diary notes that as punishment for the escape of R. E. Stott no-one's to be allowed to go to the French Hospital for X-rays for one month.

 

The British Communal Council, which is elected today, is renamed the British Community Council (see also August 18).

Source:

BCC: HK Public Records Office, HKRS112, Catalogue; G. B. Endacott and Alan Birch, Hong Kong Eclipse, 1978, 208

Note:

The Diary refers to the failure of a 'patient' sent to the French Hospital for X-rays to return to camp. In fact, Stott was sent there on  February 20 in the hope that the better diet would help his duodenal ulcer. It seems from Barbara Anslow's diary that the ban on X-ray leave lasted two months, as did the other punishment that Stanley received for this escape - the end to visits by Dr. Selwyn-Clarke. For Stott's escape and the controversy it caused see http://brianedgar.wordpress.com/2012/10/10/early-days-in-the-french-hospital-2-the-evidence-of-volunteer-stott/

15 Aug 1942, Harry Ching's wartime diary

Posted: 13 Mar 2013 06:54 AM PDT

Book / Document: 
Harry Ching's wartime diary
Date of events described: 
Sat, 1942-08-15

((Following text not dated:))

Eurasian meeting. Arranged relief rates. To pay for flour in yen.

To town for flour. Flour 50 sen catty. Oil ration depots to open. Reportedly 9.4 taels per head per month at Y1.40 a catty. Eggs 80 cents each. We get 70 cents from neighbours. Little house paper quite a problem. Buying cho chi at 70 cents catty. Lane Crawford selling siege biscuits 70 sen a pound. Sealed tin 28 lb for Y18. These were intended for distribution in anticipated siege.

Basins of water appear at doors of official places for entrants to wash hands. Upstairs lad fails wash going in, and slapped. Trying to be correct washed coming out. Slapped again for insult.

All Third Nationals must register again before end August. To town to register. 

15 Aug 1942, Eric MacNider's wartime diary

Posted: 17 Jul 2014 12:12 AM PDT

Book / Document: 
Eric MacNider's wartime diary
Date of events described: 
Sat, 1942-08-15

Softball concert at I.Q. Ground

Donation of $15,000 from the Vatican for internees announced on notice board.
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