26 Jul 1943, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp

Matron E. M. B. Dyson sends a letter home:

Dearest Mother,

Glad to tell you that all members of the unit are fit and fairly well, but in excellent spirits, facing this life with cheerful courage, making full use of this enforced holiday by language courses, lectures, commercial and art classes, camp fatigues, all types of housework from laundry to kitchen, walking, the more robust swim, but games definitely too strenuous nowadays....Weight now nine and a half stones...

Uninterned American writer Emily Hahn and Yvonne Ho are dining with General Suginamini. The General assures them that the Americans are in no position to bomb Hong Kong - they have plenty of planes in Chungking, but not enough petrol.

Sources:

Dyson: Nicola Tyrer, Sisters In Arms, 2008, 66

Hahn: Emily Hahn, China To Me, 1986 ed., 412