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Escape from the Japanese

Submitted by JerkJi on

Published by Frontline Books, here's their introduction to the book:

Trapped in the depths of Japanese-held territory, it was rare for Allied prisoners of war to attempt escape. There was little chance of making contact with anti-guerrilla or underground organisations and no possibility of Europeans blending in with the local Asian populations. Failure, and recapture, meant execution. 

This was what Lieutenant Commander R.B. Goodwin faced when he decided to escape from the Shamsuipo PoW Camp in Kowloon, Hong Kong in July 1944 after three years of internment.

Annie Oakes Huntington

Submitted by annelisec on

Writing from Brockhurst on the Peak where her family is spending the summer.

From: Annie Oakes Huntington - age 10

(an American expat child whose father worked for Russell & Co.)

To Marion Richardson (in Boston)

Hong Kong July 11th 1885.

My dear Man:

I suppose you are down at Beverly and asleep while I am writing this letter. The Bay of Hong Kong is very pretty with mountains all around the Bay. We live about half up the peak so we get a lovely view. We live on Robinson Road,

Personal Experiences of the War and Internment in Hong Kong

Submitted by David on

This document is courtesy of Carol Wheat, M F Key's Grand-neice. She writes:

I have a copy of his booklet, HONG KONG Before, During and After the Pacific War, which is a general narrative published in the "Kapunda Herald" while he was staying with my Grandparents at their property "Kaplee" during his convalescence from his Internment. Following on from this circulation, there were requests for an account of his personal experiences of the War and Internment in Hong Kong, I also have a typed copy of this 18 page narrative, a very interesting read.

Paul Atroshenko's childhood memories of wartime Hong Kong

Submitted by Admin on

The extracts from Paul's website are reproduced here with his permission. He writes:

Thanks to the Russian Revolution, a lot of Russians ended up like political shrapnel flung across the Far East. Hong Kong proved to be a great haven for many of them. Even during the Japanese Occupation, Russians were not interned because the Japanese avoided war with the Soviet Union; and all Russians, whatever their politics, were basically left alone.