6 Feb 1942, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp

Submitted by brian edgar on Tue, 01/17/2012 - 22:56

The Japanese give permission for a limited number of postcards to be written to neutral friends in town, but it's a long time before they're delivered.

 

RAF man Donald Hill is in Shamshuipo POW Camp. Today someone gives him a parcel brought by his Chinese girlfriend Florrie: a large tin of cocoa, milk, butter, soap and biscuits. He goes down to the fence and finds her there; she tells him she was interned in Stanley for two weeks and then released:

That girl saved my life...My God, she smuggled food into me. It's something I'll never forget. I think she saved my life.

 

Missionaries Alice Lan and Betty Hu are riding in a rickshaw along Nathan Road (Kowloon) when they hear their names being called. It's a photographer who'd previously taken pictures for their Bethel Mission. He'd recently been used to take propaganda photos of Stanley Camp, and while there he was given a scrap of paper by two friends of the women to pass on to them to inform them they were still alive.

Source:

Postcards: John Stericker, A Tear For The Dragon, 1958, 173

Florrie: Andro Linklater, The Code of Love, 2000, 93, 228

Lan/Hu: Alice Y. Lan and Betty M. Hu, We Flee From Hong Kong, 2000 edition (1944), 48-49

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