M. L. Bevan's diary entry:
Bailey and Cole moved to Bungalow E. Mason died.
Cole is presumably A. L. Cole of the Colonial Secretary's Office, and Bailey is probably C. T. Bailey, who served under Bevan (Deputy Director of ARP) as an Air Raid Precautions Training Officer.
Bungalows D, E, F were all in use at first and 'E' was associated with Public Works Department staff; for unknown reasons 'D' and 'E' were closed down and then opened in 1943 for the previously uninterned health workers ('D') and bankers ('E').
Mason was Joseph Mason, who died of heart failure in bed in the Indian Quarters.
Eighteen people are 'guaranteed out' of Stanley. Four are American and most or all of the rest British. The Americans are E. F. Gingle, Dr. Frank Molthen, 'Red' Sammons and Miss Dorrer.
The first death from diphtheria at North Point POW Camp is recorded. The disease struck Shamshuipo in late June, and will now wreak havoc amongst the Canadians.
Sources:
Bevan Diary: Imperial War Museum 523.1 (Bevan) 58132, Typescript of Diary
Cole and Bailey:
http://www.hongkongwardiary.com/searchgarrison/nonuniformedcivilians.ht…
Death of Mason: Geoffrey Emerson, Hong Kong Internment, 1973, 271
Mason's first name: https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/stanley_camp/conversations/messages…
Out: Maryknoll Diary, August 5, 1942
First death: Tony Banham, We Shall Suffer There, 2009, Tuesday 4 August 1942
Note:
Dr. Molthen was one of Hong Kong's first chiropractors, and he's said to have treated General and Madame Chiang Kai-shek. During the hostilities he showed himself adept at scuttling ships.
'Red' Sammons had worked for Gingle as a manager.