72 years ago: Hong Kong's wartime diaries |
- 12 Sep 1942, Barbara Anslow's diary
- 12 Sep 1942, R. E. Jones Wartime diary
- 12 Sep 1942, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp
- 12 Sep 1942, John Charter's wartime diary
- 12 Sep 1942, Eric MacNider's wartime diary
| 12 Sep 1942, Barbara Anslow's diary Posted: 26 Feb 2012 08:11 PM PST Book / Document: Barbara Anslow's diary Date of events described: Sat, 1942-09-12 Dr Yaroogsky-Erooga says Mabel will probably be in hospital for about a month; he will try to get extra food for her, but if she doesn't yield to treatment, they may have to operate. So terrible that we haven't anything extra or tempting to give her. Mum is looking so skinny and drawn too. Fr Moore etc. left today, only Father Meyer and Father Hessler (Maryknollers) remain, plus Canadian Father Murphy and the Sisters.  |
| 12 Sep 1942, R. E. Jones Wartime diary Posted: 30 Aug 2012 07:10 AM PDT Book / Document: R. E. Jones Wartime diary Date of events described: Sat, 1942-09-12 Zingall, of I.R.C. ((Zindel from the International Red Cross)) had nothing of importance to impart. News nil. Concert P.M.  |
| 12 Sep 1942, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp Posted: 26 Nov 2012 08:12 AM PST Book / Document: Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp Date of events described: Sat, 1942-09-12 Those members of the Maryknoll Order who had turned down the American repatriation in the hope of eventually being allowed to go to their mission stations in China are allowed out of Stanley: What a day! We are to be released from our confinement and go back to civilized life! We toted our baggage in the morning down to the American Club Block A-4, and there at 10:00 a.m. it was examined, not too minutely, by the gendarmes. Nothing was confiscated, however. At about eleven o'clock the truck which brings the food out to the Camp backed up and the first group, consisting of Fathers Toomey, Troesch, Downs, Keelan, Siebert, Walter and Knotek, Brother Thaddeus and Sisters ((Mary)) Dorothy and Henrietta Marie, got in. At the Depot were many of our friends to see us off and to wish us well. At 2:30 in the afternoon the second group, consisting of Fathers Tackney, Madison, Moore, McKeirnan, Gaiero and O'Connell, and most of our baggage, left.
Father Donald Hessler and Father Bernard Meyer stay behind. With the help of the Canadian Father Murphy and two Maryknoll Sisters, Mary Christella and Mary Eucharista, they will minister to the Catholics left in Stanley. The Sisters, who also run the library, will leave sometime before January 1943.
Also leaving today is Australian Doris Cuthberston, private secretary to Jardine Mattheson managing director J. J. Paterson. She's been 'guaranteed out' by Raoul de Sercey, a friend of Mr. Paterson's. This is the last time anyone will be allowed to leave camp on the 'guaranteeing out' system whereby people could return to Hong Kong if they had a neutral sponsor who would promise they'd be supported there. Usually a promise has also to be made not to work against Japanese interests but in this case it's not exacted. It wouldn't have mattered: Miss Cuthbertson is coming out for a reason, and she immediately throws herself into a courageous programme of relief for Jardine Mattheson employees in Stanley and the POW camps. Mr. de Sercey escapes from Hong Kong in April 1944, but she seems to have managed to carry on her humanitarian work until the end of the war, surviving at least three waves of Kempeitai terror. Sources: Maryknoll Diary, September 12, 1942 Hessler etc.: Cindy Yik-yi Chu, The Maryknoll Sisters in Hong Kong, 2004, 58 Ride Papers, Statement of Raoul de Sercey, June 2, 1944 (kindly supplied by Elizabeth Ride)  |
| 12 Sep 1942, John Charter's wartime diary Posted: 08 Oct 2013 05:12 AM PDT Book / Document: John Charter's wartime diary Date of events described: Sat, 1942-09-12 ((Documents are issued to act as replacements for the passports that John and Yvonne had lost during the upheaval of the fighting and later move to Stanley:))  |
| 12 Sep 1942, Eric MacNider's wartime diary Posted: 08 Jul 2014 07:42 AM PDT Book / Document: Eric MacNider's wartime diary Date of events described: Sat, 1942-09-12 20 people (14 Fathers) left the camp Request programme concert (M.C. Brown).  |
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