Repatriation rumours seem to have fizzled out. Mum not too good.
Diary pages from this date
The Japanese give permission for a limited number of postcards to be written to neutral friends in town, but it's a long time before they're delivered.
RAF man Donald Hill is in Shamshuipo POW Camp. Today someone gives him a parcel brought by his Chinese girlfriend Florrie: a large tin of cocoa, milk, butter, soap and biscuits. He goes down to the fence and finds her there; she tells him she was interned in Stanley for two weeks and then released:
That girl saved my life...My God, she smuggled food into me. It's something I'll never forget. I think she saved my life.
Missionaries Alice Lan and Betty Hu are riding in a rickshaw along Nathan Road (Kowloon) when they hear their names being called. It's a photographer who'd previously taken pictures for their Bethel Mission. He'd recently been used to take propaganda photos of Stanley Camp, and while there he was given a scrap of paper by two friends of the women to pass on to them to inform them they were still alive.
Source:
Postcards: John Stericker, A Tear For The Dragon, 1958, 173
Florrie: Andro Linklater, The Code of Love, 2000, 93, 228
Lan/Hu: Alice Y. Lan and Betty M. Hu, We Flee From Hong Kong, 2000 edition (1944), 48-49
Today black out restrictions imposed. Black out restrictions lifted ?-03-1942.