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

Birth of Olivia Maria Ogley to W. O. Ogley of Lane Crawford and Mrs P. D. Ogley.

Elizabeth Anstall writes - with supporting signatures - to the BCC to protest about the plan to take 89 cents (almost 20%) of the gift sent by the Pope to each internee and use it for a relief fund. She argues that the gift is already 'relief' and there's nothing to stop anyone who wants giving 89 cents, or everything to the camp's needy. John Stericker, Camp Secretary, will reply on September 7 that the deduction is in accordance with the wishes of Bishop Valtorta and that individuals might spend the money on cigarettes whereas the welfare fund will help those in greatest need. Perhaps facetiously he assumes that Elizabeth Anstall and the other signatories fall into this category.

Before the war Hong Kong fought off any proposal to introduce an income tax. Attitudes are changing in the new circumstances.

The first draft of POWs to be sent to work in Japan is boarded today.618 men are in the holds of the Maru Shi - many of them are the 'hard men' who refused to immediately sign a promise not to escape, and other people the Japanese or the British authorities regard as undesirable (for example, because they're suspected of stealing the food of weaker POWs). They wil sail tomorrow, and a higher percentage of this draft will survive the war than of any other.

Sources:

Anstall: MacNider Papers, 'Pope's Gift'

Draft:Tony Banham, We Shall Suffer There, 2009, September 3, 1942