There are almost no 'Europeans' left in town now, and it's the Chinese who are the unintended victims of the American bombing that's necessary to destroy the military and economic capacity of Japanese Hong Kong.
But today a bomb falls on the French Hospital in Causeway Bay and the popular Norwegian Pastor Neilson, who has a room on the top floor, loses everything to the resulting flames. Also destroyed are a set of accounts documenting in detail the loans raised for Selwyn Selwyn-Clarke's illegal relief operation by the bankers and others. These were given to Dr. Po-Chuen-Lai (who, along with Helen Ho continued Selwyn-Clarke's work after his arrest) and hidden in her room.
Désirée Gunderson, whose father is in Stanley, suffers a minor back wound, and she and her mother, Ruth Yvonne (née Baretto), are forced to seek new living quarters. Désirée is eventually sent to Macao on a junk, while her mother stays in occupied Hong Kong until the end, hearing the reading of the Imperial Rescript announcing the surrender outside the Gloucester Building on August 16.
The re-opening of the Hospital was announced on April 20th., although the Chinese school the Sisters had also been running remained closed at that date.
Sources:
Accounts: HKRS931 6-485 (Transportations)
Re-opening: Hong Kong News, April 20, 1945, p. 2
Neilson, Gundersons: Statement of Ruth Yvonne Gunderson, 10 - in HKPRO, HKMS100-1-6