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72 years ago: Hong Kong's wartime diaries

15 Jan 1944, Barbara Anslow's diary
15 Jan 1944, R. E. Jones Wartime diary
15 Jan 1944, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp

15 Jan 1944, Barbara Anslow's diary

Posted: 31 Mar 2012 03:33 AM PDT

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Barbara Anslow's diary

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Sat, 15 Jan 1944

Went to hosp. early - Mabel in cock-eyed bed with wooden poles across the top, and her left leg extended and held taut with a dangling flat-iron. That day Dr Myasaka visited the hospital, but though requests were made, nothing was done about x-ray then. Fractured heel and left wrist.

I started to learn German from Mr R. Lederhofer.

15 Jan 1944, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

Posted: 30 Dec 2013 12:59 AM PST

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R. E. Jones Wartime diary

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Sat, 15 Jan 1944

Fine, mild.

Cleaned rm, bthrm & kitchen.

4Pkts Cigs.

Jap Dr. around the Camp.

With Steve pm.

Black-out.

(5 more Es ex. in town. Gingles, Chester-Woods, Pascoe, Da Silva & Soares?)

((I guess he's noting a rumour that a further five people had been executed. Who is he referring to?

Gingles: E F Gingle. He had been interned at Stanley Camp initially, but had later been allowed to live in the city.
Chester-Woods: John Black's list shows a W R Chester-Woods interned in Stanley, but from Jones' comments it looks as though he had moved out of camp as well.
Pascoe: Possibly Boris Pasco, who has been arrested by the Japanese at one point.
Da Silva: Probably Marcus da Silva, who had smuggled money into Stanley.
Soares: I'm not sure who this could be. Brian suggests "Soares might have been F. X. Soares, a banker who was certainly involved in some resistance activity but managed to escape to Macao before being caught." See http://brianedgar.wordpress.com/2012/05/22/edward-gingle-at-war/))