3 Apr 1942, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp

Birth of Barbara Mary Morris to George H. A. Morris and Ida L. Morris.

United Church Services notice:

Good Friday;

Service of Meditation on the Seven Words from the Cross...12 noon - 3 p.m.

Conducted by the Rev. Dr. P. Beaver.

Speakers:- Revs. Wittenbach, Short, Rankin, Bechtel, Alton, Ady & Richards.

(All Worshippers are not expected to remain during the whole of the Service, but it is requested that they will leave only during the singing of one of the hymns.)

Uninterned banker Andrew Leiper and his wife Helen wake up to the anniversary of their engagement. Instead of celebrating, they have to go to the dentist: Helen fractured a filling on a hard object in her rice a couple of days ago, and the pain is agonising. Mr. Iishi, a civilian supervising the liquidation of the bank, arranges for an armed guard to take them to the office of a Chinese dentist trained in America. While there, they meet a polite naval officer who tells them of his reluctance to fight the British.

Sources:

Birth: China Mail, September 15, 1945, page 3

Church: Jim Shepherd, Silks, Satins, Gold Braid and Monkey Jackets, 1996, 61

Leiper: Andrew Leiper, A Yen For My Thoughts, 1982, 145-146