81 years ago: Hong Kong's wartime diaries

The water supply is restored this morning. Franklin Gimson is grateful to the Camp authorities for working with the Governor's Office to bring this about. Nevertheless, a delighted Hasegawa tells him that the internees should proceed 'with the construction of tanks, wells, latrines etc. in order to prepare for any emergency'.

Source:

Franklin Gimson Diary, Weston Library, Oxford, p. 104 (recto)

Overcast, NE wind.

Store partition & wood.

Water on at 7am.

Lorry at 1pm with veg & papers.

Patton’s Army advance 10mls on 55ml front. Cross Moselle N of Metz. Kyushu bombed 9th. 80.B.292. Kweilin occupied by Japs 10th. Concern re Wangs condition 11th. Forli occupied 9th.

With Steve aft.