70 years ago: Hong Kong's wartime diaries

Birth of Oriana Elizabeth Barrow to Kathleen Eleanor Barrow, a Government nursing sister.

The Epstein escape party arrive at the Macao fishing harbour at 4 a.m. They hear the church bells ringing for Sunday service. They wait for a policeman to pass, and then scramble ashore. A 'small, dark round man' looks them over and asks, 'Hey, are you folks from Hong Kong?'. It's Father Paulus from the American Maryknoll Mission. He takes them to John Reeves' British Consulate, by way of the Carmelite Convent, where he says mass.

Source:

Epstein: My China Eye, 2005, 150

Note:

In 1947 the people of Tong Fuk Village, Lantau Island, were awarded, HK$1500 for having helped the escapers.