22 Sep 1945, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp
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Submitted by brian edgar on Thu, 2013-04-04 18:10
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Sat, 22 Sep 1945
The hospital ship Oxfordshire reaches Sydney. The Melbourne Argus quotes unnamed Hong Kong passengers as saying 'it seemed that they had not had nearly as bad a time of it as prisoners in other areas'. The reporter goes on to remark 'Yet some are very sick indeed':
Every single person taken on the ship was suffering from malnutrition, many of them from deficiency diseases such as beri-beri, and some had war wounds still unhealed since the Japanese capture of Hong Kong in December, 1941.
The South China Morning Post (Morning edition, p. 1) claims that bread is still at the prohibitive price of HK$6 a pound.
Source:
The Argus, September 24, 1945, page 3
