Death of 74 year old architect Ernest Manning Hazeland.
Before being sent to Stanley he was held in room 507 of the Mee CHow Hotel.
His wife Helene Clare is also an internee.
Sources:
Geoffrey Emerson, Hong Kong Internment, 2008, 188
http://www.hongkongwardiary.com/searchgarrison/nonuniformedcivilians.html#_Toc43367497
Death of Ernest Mason Hazeland (74)
Rec'd. Y3.33 workers' pay
Overcast thin mist, a little drier, E ground wind.
Sewing shop.
Water on.
Paper has no E. news whatever but plenty of tripe about Leyte.
Rumours re receipt of Parcels on 13th Dec & repatriation of women & childrens [sic] have grown stronger.
Planes over W to E & E to W about midn’t. Heavy stuff dropped to the W.