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- 6 Jun 1942, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp
- 6 Jun 1942, Barbara Anslow's diary
- 6 Jun 1942, R. E. Jones Wartime diary
| 6 Jun 1942, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp Posted: 08 Feb 2012 07:38 AM PST Book / Document: Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp Date of events described: Sat, 1942-06-06 Death of Camille Tweed Denton, daughter of Ivy Denton, aged two months.
In what is possibly the first attempt by the British Army Aid Group to contact Stanley, Lindsay Ride sends a message to Jardine's taipan D. L. Newbigging ('Buggins'). The message is written in a deliberately confusing form based on nursery rhymes, children's games and poetry, but the meaning is clear: Newbigging is being offered a horse in the 'LIBERTY STAKES' - the possibility of an escape.
U. S. State Department report on Stanley Camp, dated June 6, 1942: It appears there was some informing from within the camp. It is difficult to explain in any other way the unerring discovery of several radio sets, field glasses, and other objects concealed by internees….Although three Japanese women who were interned as British subjects and a number of Eurasians were naturally suspected, there is good reason to believe that at least one of the more vicious informers was a woman of British birth. The Americans also had their quota of informers, but being a more compact community had the situation better in hand.
The three Maryknoll Sisters released from camp yesterday (Mary Clement, Mary de Ricci and Mary St Dominic) go to get their ration cards. They find Caine Road very much changed:
{It} was no longer what it used to be, without any of its previous excitement, but just like one of the other 'dori' ((streets))...in the occupied colony. On the streets, English signs aand prints were removed or painted over. The miserable begged for food. In a corner, there was 'a poor woman crying with hunger and eating some scarps she had salvaged from a grbage pile'. Not far away, 'two men, too weak to stand, were lying in the street crying piteously to passers-by for help.'
Sources: Death: China Mail, September 15, 1945, page 3 BAAG: Edwin Ride, British Army Aid Group, 1981, 164-16 Report: Greg Leck, Captives of Empire, 2006, 347 Maryknoll: Cindy Yik-yi Chu, The Maryknoll Sisters in Hong Kong, 2004, 56 Note: See also April 2, 1942. Geoffrey Emerson gives Camille Tweed Denton's date of death as July 7. Barbara Anslow also gives June as month of death, and as cause of death 'inanition'. Greg Leck's list has June 6 and the cause as 'marasmus' (623). Note: The information on which the State Department report is based was presumably provided by the Israel Epstein escape party.
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| 6 Jun 1942, Barbara Anslow's diary Posted: 13 Feb 2012 05:32 AM PST Book / Document: Barbara Anslow's diary Date of events described: Sat, 1942-06-06 Rumours are that we will ALL be repatriated. |
| 6 Jun 1942, R. E. Jones Wartime diary Posted: 19 May 2012 05:41 AM PDT Book / Document: R. E. Jones Wartime diary Date of events described: Sat, 1942-06-06 2,000 planes raid Germany nightly. French advised to overthrow Vichy Govt. Russians lost about 100,000 men & Germans 200,000. Canton outskirts penetrated and City liable to fall in 24hrs. Repatriation negotiations going on. Unrest in Germany. 200 shot outside Reichstag. Burma, on side of Jap, bombed by Allies. Gulf of Papau [?] 1 Jap dest. sunk & 1 damaged. Relatives of Internees informed by BBC. |
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