The Shanghai Evening Post and Mercury came out with a New York City edition from 1943 onwards.
Caution: Information presented may not always be accurate due to wartime restrictions and time delays.
But for those looking for lost family members and information of events in Hong Kong, China and other parts of Asia, the news was a welcome bonus.
"To come across familiar names and places in a real Far East paper was like a magic carpet taking us back to Hong Kong. One could always hear the clatter of clogs and the little newsboys shouting, "What (sic) Kiu Yat Po" and the old ricksha men arguing, and by just closing one's eyes, we could see Hong Kong as she looks on a lovely sunny day, the Peak rising up so proudly from the blue water at her feet to the blue sky above and here and there a little white fluffy cloud drifting lazily by. And then you can see her at night as you cross over on the ferry, just like an open jewel box with the hundreds of twinkley lights all over. For those of us whose last glimpse of Hong Kong was from a deck of a liner taking us away from dear ones, it will always be a haunting memory as we saw it through a mist of tears. But I hope the day won't be far distant when those of us who may be able to go back will once again be going up to the harbour and see again our Hong Kong with eyes shining with happiness."
An excerpt in a Letter to the Editor in The Shanghai Evening Post and Mercury on 2 April 1943. Written by Mrs. Douglas Wass of Vancouver, B. C., Canada. Her husband was with the Police and interned at Stanley.
Links below for the years 1943-46:
(1) 1943
(2) 1944
(3) 1945
(4) 1946