On 12 May this year the Jesuit authorities had agreed to open a new institution on the mainland - Wah Yan College, Kowloon. Today the Superior of that Mission, Father Patrick Joy, reports that 'people are very hopeful here that we have seen the worst of the Japanese menace.'
Hong Kong's Jesuits are Irish, and therefore likely to be neutral if war breaks out; nevertheless, the billeting officer, Julius Ring, will contact Father Joy and by December 1 it's agreed that Father Gerald 'Doc' Kennedy, who had WW1 experience, will take charge of St Teresa's Hospital in Kowloon and 8 other Jesuits are assigned to the branch responsible for the transport of dependants of Essential Service workers to safe places.
Source:
Thomas J. Morrisey, Thomas F. Ryan, S.J.: From Cork to China and Windsor Castle, 2010, 53