72 years ago: Hong Kong's wartime diaries |
| Posted: 23 Dec 2011 09:50 PM PST Book / Document: R. E. Jones Wartime diary Date of events described: Wed, 1942-01-07 Two years ago today Marj & I arrived here. Japanese taking over the Prison. |
| 7 Jan 1942, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp Posted: 10 Jan 2012 01:27 PM PST Book / Document: Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp Date of events described: Wed, 1942-01-07 Wenzell Brown and his fellows have the 'rules and regulations which were to govern us' read by two Japanese, who also lecture them about the bad treatment of Japanese nationals in the USA. But there's a happier development: The first batch of food came in on the third day - rice and ducks. The ducks had come from the storage rooms of the Dairy Farm where the refrigeration system had broken down two weeks before. The meat had turned blue, and it gave forth a most unpleasant odor. Soon after 9p.m. Franklin Gimson, who had been held at Central Police Station, is released. He'd not been treated badly, although Japanese officials kept walking past his cell (number 9) waving a letter he'd written to them which they deemed offensively forthright, and an Indian guard had made so much noise that he'd been unable to sleep. At 9 p.m. he was taken from his cell and he expected to be executed, but found the Japanese Consul-General waiting in his car to return him to the Prince's Building. He has a stiff drink and some food and retires to bed. Sources: Food: Wenzell Brown, Hong Kong Aftermath, 1943, 57, 61 Gimson: Phyllis Harrop, Hong Kong Incident, 1943, 107 |
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