Three members of the Triads are arrested close to the camp. They are on their way to a rendez-vous at the barbed wire - probably to recieve information to be transmitted outside Hong Kong.
They are accused of being in a forbidden area, but, in spite of torture, they refuse to reveal the purpose of their mission before they are executed.
Source:
F. W. Shaftain's Memoirs, p. 5 at https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IFHSG5WKSSBn1fPQJQueH53-UWiThFYP/view
Americans (-2) not going away
Plays - "Villa for sale" (Day Sage, Lorraine Money, J.C. & Yvonne Charter, Mrs Lewis): "The Blackmailer" (I. Newton, Lydia Hutchinson, Jack Skinner): "Elizabeth Refuses" (S. Mackinlay, James Norman, Yvonne Charter, Mrs Tinson, Mrs Graham Barrow) (c.) D.
OBJECTIVE: Bomb White Cloud airbase at Canton
TIME OVER TARGET: ~11:45 a.m.
AMERICAN UNITS AND AIRCRAFT: Eight B-25s from the 11th Bomb Squadron (341st Medium Bomb Group) escorted by eleven P-40s from the 74th Fighter Squadron (23rd Fighter Group). All aircraft are from the 14th Air Force.
AMERICAN PILOTS AND AIRCREW:
OBJECTIVE: Bomb riverfront godowns at Canton
TIME OVER TARGET: ~3:00 p.m.
AMERICAN UNITS AND AIRCRAFT: Four P-38s from the 449th Fighter Squadron (23rd Fighter Group)
AMERICAN PILOTS AND AIRCREW: 1st Lt. Lewden Enslen; 2nd Lt. Billie M. Beardsley
ORDNANCE EXPENDED: 8 x 500-pound bombs
RESULTS: Pilots report direct hits on godowns
JAPANESE UNITS, AIRCRAFT, AND PILOTS:
Two alarms but nothing happened. Saw plane swoop low over Harbour. Yarn she brought down. Ten raiders but no damage.
Unconditional surrender of Italy made known
Plays (see 9th for details)
Well, I am glad to say that the camp rations have come in every day since the last raid in spite of the gasoline shortage – so perhaps I got all hot under the collar about it for nothing. However, the Japanese did issue the warning. There was a story that Hatori came out to see Gimson the next day and assured him that even if it meant that food had to be brought out here (8 miles) by coolie labour he would see that it arrived. He certainly seems to do his best by this camp.
OBJECTIVE: Bomb Whampoa docks in Canton
TIME OVER TARGET: ~4:00 p.m.
AMERICAN UNITS AND AIRCRAFT: Six P-38s from the 449th Fighter Squadron (23rd Fighter Group)
AMERICAN PILOTS AND AIRCREW: Captain L.O. Gregg; 2nd Lt. Weber
ORDNANCE EXPENDED: Unknown, but since only four of the six P-38s carry bombs, probably 8 x 500-pound general-purpose bombs
RESULTS: P-38 pilots claim three hits on Whampoa docks
JAPANESE UNITS, AIRCRAFT, AND PILOTS: Up to seventeen Ki-44-II led by Captain Yukiyoshi Wakamatsu.
Y25 allowance for children reduced from 5 to 3 + full canteen tab.
Plays (see 9th for details)
Kenneth Antony Davis born, a brother for Kathleen and June.
Birth of Kenneth Anthony Tyrtoff Davis to Donald Cater Davis, an HSBC bank official and Mrs Davis.
Mr. and Mrs Davis and their two young daughters had been among those bankers kept out of internment until the summer of 1943.They were in the last batch to arrive in Stanley on July 16, 1943.
From a report dated December 7, 1943 of the debriefing of members of the former Hong Kong Government and their dependants after arrival in New York on the Gripsholm:
The reactions to American bombing are indescribable. The stunt flight of the P. 38s over the camp is the greatest moment in these people’s lives.
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