11 Feb 1942, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp

Morris 'Two-Gun' Cohen is taken to an interrogation room. Already there are an officer, an interpreter and 'two ugly-looking customers'.

Cohen realises that, although they seem to have a lot of information about him, much of it is jumbled and inaccurate, so when they ask him for details of his wartime activities with the Chinese and British, he denies everything. The two 'ugly-looking customers' start to mistreat him:

One of them slashed me across the shoulders with a bamboo. That was too much. I got to my feet and socked him on the jaw. It was a good sock too....but it was the end for me. The officer joined in, and the three of them let me have it with fists, boots and bamboo till they were tired.

Franklin Gimson sacks George Kennedy-Skipton from his post in the Hong Kong Government after the latter refuses to obey Gimson's order to cease his work in Hong Kong. Kennedy-Skipton will remain uninterned by asserting Irish nationality until his escape from Hong Kong on January 24, 1943.

Sources:

Cohen: Charles Drage, The Life And Times Of General Two-Gun Cohen, 1954, 292-293

Kennedy-Skipton: http://brianedgar.wordpress.com/2012/09/01/accusations-of-collaboration-1-george-stacy-kennedy-skipton-2/

Note:

I've summarised Cohen's own account, which is accepted by his biographer Daniel Levy, even though Levy recognises that some of Cohen's stories are 'fabrications'.