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72 years ago: Hong Kong's wartime diaries

72 years ago: Hong Kong's wartime diaries

5 Dec 1942, Barbara Anslow's diary

Posted: 13 Mar 2012 02:11 AM PDT

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Barbara Anslow's diary
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Sat, 5 Dec 1942

Dreadfully cold.

Concert in evening - best I've seen here.  Compered by Danny Wilson.   Barton girls and others in colourful Spanish dance.  H. Mundy gave a good 'Albert' poem ((a Stanley Holloway piece)), and 'Hong Kong' - words by Alec Kidd ((probably the 'Alexander Kidd' on the Stanley list, I didn't know him at all)).

Rumours are that Turkey has entered war, and Hong Kong has been declared a free city; and we will be searched.

Had first of vitamin caramels today - taste fishy.  ((Caramels by Red Cross, and distributed to us one at a time.))

Yvonne ((Blackmore, aged 15)) returned story, verdict: 'this story held my interest all the time, I was always loathe to put it down.'

5 Dec 1942, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

Posted: 30 Nov 2012 10:32 PM PST

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R. E. Jones Wartime diary
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Sat, 5 Dec 1942

Cold.

Turkey in the war?

((G.))
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