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

Escape of French national Mr. Petro, who is to report to the Red Cross on the conditions of the American Consular officials:

United States diplomatic officers are housed in two consular homes. Personnel allowed occasional visits to the city under guard but are not allowed to communicate with the outside. No food is furnished, but purchases allowed through certain channels. Outside of restrictions, they are "all right". A proposal seems to be afoot to transfer diplomats to Stanley Prison but keep them segregated from the rest of the civilian internees.

Governor Mark Young, who's been held incommunicado at the Peninsula Hotel, is flown to Woosung, where he'll stay until September.

Sources:

Petro 'Report of Recent Developments in the Situation of Americans in the Orient', May 14, 1942

(viewable at http://www.weihsien-paintings.org/NormanCliff/history/DOCUMENTS/Letters/1942-May14.htm)

Young: Tony Banham, We Shall Suffer There, 2009, entry for February 12