E. D. Sykes, head of the Eurasian Welfare Association, is arrested.
The reason for his arrest is unclear, but he's asked if his Association is receiving funds from Dr. Selwyn-Clarke or the British Government. He denies this and claims that he's kept the Association going by claiming rations for 250 fictitious members and then selling the extra food. He's accused of defrauding the Japanese Government and eventually given a ten year sentence.
Source:
Hong Kong Sunday Herald, January 5, 1947, page 2
Note:
Sykes was believed by the British Army Aid Group to be involved through a Welfare Committee with Dr. Selwyn-Clarke in 1942, but it's not known what contact if any he had with him at the time of his arrest. Selwyn-Clarke's 'protector', the senior Japanese Medical Officer Colonel Eguchi, was still in Hong Kong, so the Kempeitai, who believed the doctor was the leading British spy, seem to have been operating on the understanding that they could only take him into custody if they could get plausible evidence against him from others - after his escape in October 1942 Dr. Fehilly told the BAAG that the Kempeitai were questioning those people they arrested about Selwyn-Clarke. Eguchi left Hong Kong in late April and the doctor's arrest followed on May 2.
For something of this story see the Chronology entries for: February 10 and 11, 1943 and May 2, 1943 and following.