30 Mar 1942, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp
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Submitted by brian edgar on Mon, 2012-01-23 18:51
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Date(s) of events described:
Mon, 30 Mar 1942
A day of torrential rain.
Journalist Gwen Dew and eleven other Americans are summoned to Japanese Headquarters. The group includes four other journalists, three Red Cross representatives and one Canadian.
Head of Foreign Affairs, Oda (Dew calls him Ota) gives them the first official news of the American repatriation. At this stage it's expected soon, and is limited to this small group, but over the next three months it will come to include almost all the Hong Kong Americans.
Source:
Gwen Dew, Prisoner Of The Japs, 1944, 140
