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No European war news whatever in today's English paper which indicates that our yarn as to the reason for Germany's severance of communications is correct, ie, "Trouble has broken out amongst the Germans". Rouen captured also the Roumanian oil pipe-line 29th.

Lorry load of Jap soldiers arrived in Camp complete with arms & rations etc.

With Steve pm. Bet with Mary re parcels tomorrow.

Our planes over NTs from 11pm to Midnt appeared to be after the railway tunnels etc. Much ineffective AA fire from Japs.

01 Sep 1944, Harry Ching's wartime diary

Posted: 25 Jan 2015 11:20 PM PST

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Fri, 1 Sep 1944

Big raid, Sleepless night. Yaumati houses hit.

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Tuesday, August 30, 2016

72 years ago: Hong Kong's wartime diaries

31 Aug 1944, Barbara Anslow's diary
31 Aug 1944, R. E. Jones Wartime diary
31 Aug 1944, Eric MacNider's wartime diary

31 Aug 1944, Barbara Anslow's diary

Posted: 16 Apr 2012 02:21 AM PDT

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Thu, 31 Aug 1944

Mabel's 21st birthday. She and I locked the door and ate a plateful each of fried sweet potatoes and rice bread with some paste I'd saved. We were real gluttons.

31 Aug 1944, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

Posted: 12 Jun 2014 05:26 AM PDT

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Thu, 31 Aug 1944

Wind SW.

Collected grass for boiler.

Promised parcels & Canteen goods did not arrive.

News excellent. Germany stops all outside communications. Allies N of Paris. Russians seem to be walking through to Hungary. Buzoa captured 27th. Paris captured 27th. US bombings intensified on all Jap holdings.

With Steve pm.

Air-raid alarm just after 10pm.

31 Aug 1944, Eric MacNider's wartime diary

Posted: 01 Sep 2014 11:02 PM PDT

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Thu, 31 Aug 1944

Issue of Y12.50

Monday, August 29, 2016

72 years ago: Hong Kong's wartime diaries

30 Aug 1944, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

Posted: 12 Jun 2014 05:25 AM PDT

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Wed, 30 Aug 1944

Showery. Wind SE.

Rice arrived. 4,000 bags.

Chief topic today is parcels.

Turkey & Spain Portugal & Switzerland sever Dip. relations with Vichy 27th. Advances made in France & Russian Front. Focsani in Rumania captured 26th. Increased raids on Japs northern islands. Troyes captured 27th. De Gaulle to church service in Notre Dame in Paris 26th. Hungarians having trouble with Rumanians. They captured German General Staff in Bucharest. Russia makes demands on Bulgaria.

Steve on rice carrying party pm.

7pm roll-call is an order from Tokyo.

Getting impatient & fed up again, hungry as usual. Imagine all kinds wonderful food.

Marseilles & Toulon captured. Mountbatten has been home & reported that enough of Burma has been captured to enable Allies to keep routes open to Chungking at the cost of 10,000 killed, 3,000 missing, 250,000 sick.

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Sunday, August 28, 2016

72 years ago: Hong Kong's wartime diaries

29 Aug 1944, Barbara Anslow's diary
29 Aug 1944, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp
29 Aug 1944, R. E. Jones Wartime diary
29 Aug 1944, Eric MacNider's wartime diary

29 Aug 1944, Barbara Anslow's diary

Posted: 16 Apr 2012 02:19 AM PDT

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Tue, 29 Aug 1944

D.C. Edmonston died. A bank official, he was imprisoned in the gaol; his wife and daughter Mary (in camp) were notified that he was dying and were allowed to go and see him, but he didn't know them, and died. ((Mrs. Edmonston had in January bought Olive's gold manicure set for Mary's birthday. The Japanese allowed Mr Edmonston's body to be buried in the camp cemetry.))

29 Aug 1944, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp

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Tue, 29 Aug 1944

David Charles Edmondston, Hong Kong manager of the HKSBC, dies in Stanley Prison of malnutrition, sepsis and medical neglect. He was 54.

He was arrested on May 24 (or May 3), 1943 and interrogated under torture, most probably either about his role in raising money for the British community and smuggling it into Stanley or about his contacts with the resistance or with Consul John Reeves in Macao. He was tried on October 19, 1943 and sentenced to ten years in prison.

According to Japanese medical officer Sato (or Saito) Shunkichi he first entered the Prison hospital in May 1943 suffering from indigestion. He was eventually discharged but frequently returned for treatement for colitis, beri beri and dysentery.

He was finally admitted with a carbuncle that covered the whole of the back of his neck.

Dr. Harry Talbot examined him and later stated that his continual sepsis contributed to his death. Sato, defending himself at his post-war trial, claimed that he'd adminstered various appropriate treatments, but Dr. Talbot stated that Edmondston had received no help from the medical officer, and this is supported by the banker's own statement, two days before his death.

Just before Edmondston died his wife Kathleen and his daughter Mary were called in from Stanley Camp to see him. He was so emaciated she didn't recognise him and his state was such that no meaningful communication was possible. The Japanese refused to allow a doctor to enter the Prison to inspect him, but did allow drugs to be sent in. The injections came too late.

Sources:

Date of trial: George Wright-Nooth, Prisoner of the Turnip Heads, 1994, 180

Age: http://www.roll-of-honour.org.uk/Cemeteries/Stanley_Military_Cemetery/html/e.htm

All other details: Reports of War Crimes trial in the China Mail:

January 9, 1947, page 2

April 3, 1947, page 2

April 9, 1947, page 2

April 12, 1947, page 2

Note:

When Edmondston's body was taken into Stanley, Dr. K. H. Uttley carried out a post-mortem, finding that death was caused by beri-beri and nutritional anaemia. The camp doctors took such investigations very seriously - they refused to come to any conclusions about Vandeleur Grayburn because his body was too decomposed when they recived it - so this is likely to be reliable.

China Mail, April 4, 1947, 2

I'm rather confused about the 'sepsis' at the moment as both Dr Talbot in his brief post-mortem report and Vincent Morrison in his war crimes evidence say the large carbuncle on the back of Edmondston's neck had healed (Morrison adds it had left a star-shaped scar.) Perhaps there had been further carbuncles, More research necessary!

29 Aug 1944, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

Posted: 12 Jun 2014 05:24 AM PDT

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Tue, 29 Aug 1944

Fine. Showers forenoon. Wind E.

Chopped wood.

Lorry went in am with some of our fellows & armed guard for rations. They were fed on congee & condensed milk in town.

Germans retire to their own borders on Eastern Front. Sweden stopped shipping to Germany. Street fighting in Paris. Churchill had 45 mins talk on important questions with Pope in Vatican.

With Steve pm.

Parcels expected at any time now & a party detailed to deal with them right away. Some taken to Bowen Rd. Hosp. for the patients there.

Lorry arrived back 10pm with rice & veg.

29 Aug 1944, Eric MacNider's wartime diary

Posted: 01 Sep 2014 10:58 PM PDT

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Tue, 29 Aug 1944

Death D C Edmondston ( ) ((ie MacNider didn't know Edmonston's age and left it blank)) in Prison

20 men sent to town to unload rice

Congee and condensed milk

Saturday, August 27, 2016

72 years ago: Hong Kong's wartime diaries

28 Aug 1944, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

Posted: 12 Jun 2014 05:22 AM PDT

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R. E. Jones Wartime diary

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Mon, 28 Aug 1944

Fine day. Wind E.

Collected grass for drying & to help out the wood for water boiling which is now twice daily.

Battle for Paris began 25th Anglo-US forces about 140 mls from German border & German forces let down very badly in Rumania due to collapse of Rumanian resistance.

A few more words with Stevens re quiet hour. ((Is this the same person he usually calls "Steve"? Or is he referring to the family as a whole?))

We are allowed two Canteen purchases per month Y20 each as from 1st Sept.

PM roll-calls now fixed 7pm so all lectures, concerts etc. must now come to an end. Some think the new order due to fact that patriotic songs were played & sung last night, others that trouble is expected at anytime.

With Steve for ½ an hour.

This new roll-call routine makes the evening seem very long.

Damned hungry again.

28 Aug 1944, Eric MacNider's wartime diary

Posted: 01 Sep 2014 10:56 PM PDT

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Mon, 28 Aug 1944

Canteen quota increased from Y88,000 to Y120,000

Roll call at 7p.m. nightly