The first meeting of the third British Community Council takes place today.
The Allies and Italy agree an armistice. Soon Italy will declare war on Germany in an attempt to switch sides, but German counter-measures will be effective and Rome will not be liberated until June 1944 and northern Italy not until shortly before the German surrender. In Hong Kong the Italians move from Allies to enemies. But little changes in fact as they've always been treated with suspicion, and, as most of them are churchmen and working hard to help their starving parishioners, the Japanese allow them to remain uninterned.
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John Stericker, Captive Colony, 1945, Chapter X, page 1
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Postcard dated 3 September 1943
From Ben Pengelley of Block A1, Room 5 to home as seen here
"Am busy preparing a vegetable garden, seeds are rather scarce but expect to get enough to carry on with, although I hope I am not here long enough to get much fruit from my labours".