10 Apr 1942, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp

Submitted by brian edgar on

The Japanese give permission for short messages to be sent to Hong Kong Prisoners of War - but on April 25 it's learnt they haven't yet been sent.

 

The four escapers of April 8 are recaptured after approaching a Chinese man named Wong and asking for helping crossing to the mainland. Unfortunately the Lei Mun area is a hotbed of Chinese who sympathise with the occupiers. Wong, a fluent Japanese speaker, informs the Japanese army, and first Morrison and then the others are apprehended. Randall is wounded by a Chinese during his capture.

 

They are taken to the Happy Valley Gendarmerie and held for five weeks in overcrowded and filthy conditions and fed on two small bowls of rice a day, sometimes accompanied by a little coarse salt and water.

Sources:

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

Escapers: George Wright-Nooth, Prisoner of the Turnip Heads, 1994, 105, 102, 259

Note:

See also entries for April 8, April 9 and June 20 (all 1942) and June 20, 1944

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