12 Sep 1942, Barbara Anslow's diary

Submitted by Barbara Anslow on Mon, 02/27/2012 - 12:11

So worried about Mabel. Dr Yaroogsky-Erooga says Mabel will probably be in hospital for about a month; he will try to get extra food for her, but if she doesn't yield to treatment, they may have to operate.  So terrible that we haven't anything extra or tempting to give her.   Mum is looking so skinny and drawn too.

Fr Moore etc. left today, only Father Meyer and Father Hessler (Maryknollers) remain, plus Canadian Father Murphy and the Sisters of the Immaculate Conception.  To Confession.

Tony came in evening.  We all went to concert, not bad but I had a heavy heart throughout  because of Mabel.  'Pinafore' number arranged by Cheape was good. ((Probably George Cheape.))

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Were these Sisters of the Immaculate Conception, a Canadian order? I believe they were billetted in Block 5 of the Married Quarters.

Barbara replies:

Yes. the Sisters who were repatriated in 1943 were of the order of the Immaculate Conception.   We RC girls gave them a party in their room in Block 5 Married Q. on their Feast Day, 8th December; don't remember where the food came from, but we prepared it and waited on them in fine style.(Described in diary 8.12.42)

Nine French-Canadian Sisters belonging to the Immaculate Conception were interned at Stanley Camp. 

A Letter from the Most Reverend Culhbert M. O’Gara, C. P., Vicar Apostolic of Yuanling, Hunan, China, to the Superior General of the Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate Conception in December 1942 gives details of Camp life and living conditions of the Sisters.

The letter can be viewed in "The Precursor", May-June 1943 magazine published by the Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate Conception at: https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/3242117?docsearchtext=hong%20kong

By the time the letter was received, five Sisters had already left Stanley Camp and arrived in Canton on 18 December 1942. See: https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/3242653?docsearchtext=anna%20bourbeau,%20hong%20kong (In French)