Boris PASCO [c.1901-1966] | Gwulo: Old Hong Kong

Boris PASCO [c.1901-1966]

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Submitted by brian edgar on Thu, 2012-12-20 23:36
Names
Given: 
Boris
Family: 
Pasco
Sex: 
Male
Status: 
Deceased
Birth
Date: 
c.1901-01-01 (Year, Month, Day are approximate)
Death
Date: 
1966-03-08

Boris Pasco was a bookseller first at Brewer's and from 1935 at Harris's.

During the war he carried out illegal relief work with Kiyoshi Watanabe and Helen Ho. He was arrested in May, 1943 on suspicion of allowing his shop on Ice House Street to be used by the resistance but managed to convince his captors of his innocence and was soon released.

For more information see:

http://brianedgar.wordpress.com/2012/12/20/boris-pasco-one-of-the-nameless-ones/

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Submitted by Admin on Sat, 2012-12-22 11:51.

Henry Ching writes:

I was very interested in Brian’s post on Boris Pasco. During the Japanese occupation my father and I used weekly to walk to Central to buy what little food we could afford, as it was cheaper than shopping in Happy Valley where we lived.  We often dropped in at Pasco’s bookshop in Ice House Street.

I was not yet ten years old then, but my father tried hard to get me to read, and I remember he bought me a book from Pasco. It was Rudyard Kipling’’s Just So Stories. After I finished it we returned it to him, and he let us choose another book without further charge. We did this with each successive book. It really became a sort of lending library, the fee for which was the cost of the initial book.

Pasco had an assistant, a Chinese lady whose name I forget. She was very loyal, and continued to operate the shop while he was a guest of the kempetai.

Pasco, incidentally, was an Old Boy of the Diocesan Boys’ School.

Submitted by brian edgar on Sun, 2012-12-23 19:45.

Thanks very much for this - in my opinion, it's more evidence of the kind of man Boris Pasco was.

And a very interesting glimpse into your life and that of your father's in occupied Hong Kong.