72 years ago: Hong Kong's wartime diaries |
- 1 Dec 1943, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp
- 1 Dec 1943, Harry Ching's wartime diary
- 1 Dec 1943, R. E. Jones Wartime diary
- 1 Dec 1943, WW2 Air Raids over Hong Kong
| 1 Dec 1943, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp Posted: 03 Aug 2012 12:50 AM PDT Book / Document: Date(s) of events described: Wed, 1 Dec 1943 Just before 10 a.m. the Gripsholm is guided by tugs to pier F in Jersey City. At 12 noon the passengers start to come down the gangplank, but before they can leave they're interviewed by military and FBI agents looking for spies and collaborators. The interviews take so long that two hundred passengers, including Emily Hahn and her daughter Carola, have to spend another night on the ship. Thirty repatriates are taken to Ellis Island for further questioning. Hahn herself is one of those under suspicion: her interrogators want to know why she wasn't interned like the other Americans, why she received favours from the Japanese and why she fraternised with high-ranking enemy officials.
The Canadians are kept on the ship waiting for the Canadian authorities, who are finding American security and intelligence hard to deal with. And there are a number of Canadians suspected of collaboration. It takes twenty hours to get everyone off the Gripsholm and on to a sealed train controlled by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
Father Charles Murphy is met by a reporter who hands him some cuttings from Canadian newpapers - he modestly disclaims the title 'the hero of Hong Kong' some of them have awarded him. He gives a long interview on his work running a refugee camp for 2,000 Chinese displaced by the fighting. The camp was set up by the Government Medical Department in the grounds of the Maryknoll Mission on December 10 (1941) and all of the occupants quietly slipped away on December 24, as if forewarned. Sources: Hahn: Ken Cuthberston, Nobody Said Not To Go, 1998, 278-279 Canadians: Daniel S. Levy, Two-Gun Cohen: An Autobiography, 1997, Kindle Edition, Location, 5583 Note: See also December 2, 1943  |
| 1 Dec 1943, Harry Ching's wartime diary Posted: 23 Mar 2013 02:31 AM PDT Book / Document: Date(s) of events described: Wed, 1 Dec 1943 Big air raid while I with Kotewall in China Building Full of glass. Felt very nervous. Big explosions. Home to find family very scared. Paper says ten planes. Alleged twenty P40s protecting bombers and seven shot down. Mrs Amy Madar killed, George Manley's sister from Shanghai. Connie Lum's sister nurse in Matilda also killed. Taikoo 200 casualties. Kowloon a mess. Hillwood, Kimberley, Cameron, Granville, Canton Roads. Two dud 200 lb bombs in Hillwood Road in Kowloon. Dud 500 lb bomb in Chungking Arcade.  |
| 1 Dec 1943, R. E. Jones Wartime diary Posted: 27 Nov 2013 06:30 AM PST Book / Document: Date(s) of events described: Wed, 1 Dec 1943 Wrote music all day. Raid at 3.50 pm Kai Tak direction. No opposition. Fine. Another raid 5pm. With Steve pm. (Guff as heard. HK to be retaken by 8th inst. Women & kids to leave 20th inst. & general repatriation next Jan.)  |
| 1 Dec 1943, WW2 Air Raids over Hong Kong Posted: 22 Feb 2014 12:14 PM PST Book / Document: Date(s) of events described: Wed, 1 Dec 1943 Here's how the raid is reported in the following day's Hong Kong News:   |
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