17 Dec 1943, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp
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Submitted by brian edgar on Thu, 2012-03-01 16:56
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Date(s) of events described:
Fri, 17 Dec 1943
Selwyn Selwyn-Clarke is still being held in a Kempeitai cell in the Supreme Court:
Day and night he lay on the filthy concrete floor of his 6'/2x5 feet cell wearing nothing but shirt and trousers and crawled over by cockroaches from a nearby latrine - conditions particularly revolting to a hygiene loving medical man and at their worst in the damp heat of a Hong Kong summer. In this loathsome spot, his legs painfully swollen with beriberi, he passed his fiftieth birthday on 17 December 1943.
Source:
Mervyn Horder, The Hard-boiled Saint: Selwyn-Clarke in Hong Kong
(viewable at: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2550548/pdf/bmj00606-0034.pdf)
