Eric MacNider's wartime diary: View pages

Canteen opened;

P.M.G. & Z.B.W. staff came in from town. ((PMG was the Postmaster General, and ZBW was the government-run radio station, the forerunner to today's RTHK. The first head of radio broadcasting in HK was the PMG!))

Daughter born to Mr & Mrs R.W. Owens.


Road from Stanley Village to no. 7 block out of bounds


Lt-Col Nagasaki interviewed Mrs Jenner and R.J. Cloake

$300,000 loan to internees

Parcels for internees


tin corned mutton for 4. tin salmon for 5 (lunch); (Purity).


Rose / Spence.

Bread bl. 2 & 3 only

Ingledew ((sp?)) kitchen crew out

Death of Mr A Ogilvie (66)1942-04-19


Greenwood kitchen crew in 

Death of J. Fancey (24)


3 Maryknoll Sisters left Camp


Death of Mr. A.W.J. Simmons (61) at S.S. College 

Sir Arthur & Lady Blackburn left Camp. (Returned 2 days later)


Prosecution of C.W. Younger notified

Janet Broadbridge left. More parcels arr

Mem. service for Col. Black & others who lost lives in Jap. attack on Stanley. (Martin)


Storeroom figures for April 21 notified: 

St. Stephen's Coll. incident - flashlights) 

Concert at American Club.


Details (individual) handed in to Am.R.C. for British Consul 

Heavy downpour in p.m. (Short/Higgins/4pm.)


Rain all day 

Repatriation rumours rife again 

Cdr. J. Jolly & A.K. Dimond came to Camp.


Gardeners opp. S.S. Coll. fired on 

Barbed wire put up


Ind. qrtrs 11oz. flour issue 

Bread baked in Camp ovens for Block 2


Wedding E.J.Kennard - Dorothy Deakin

To Mr. & Mrs. S.J.G. Burt, a son

Issue of 1lb. flour 

Nielson resigned as Chairman of Blocks 2 to 5.


Dance S.S.Coll. Hall 

Sir Elly Kadoorie, Mr. & Mrs. L. Kadoorie, Mr. W. Hunt left.

(Molestation & assaults on internees by Ind. guards) (see page 35)


3 reps going to HK for preliminary purchases ($300,000 loan orders) postponed to May 6 

Death of Mr. John Blyth (42) 

Death of baby Arthur Groves son of Mr. & Mrs. A.G. Groves (12 hrs)