8 Jan 1945, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp

Hong Kong University holds the second of two sets of Matriculation Examinations.

Among those who pass is health inspector Leslie Macey, who wasn't in Stanley when the first exams were held on May 5, 1943. Mr. Macey was one of the health workers who stayed uninterned to help Selwyn-Clarke carry out public health measures in town. Selwyn-Clarke and a number of others were arrested on suspicion of spying on May 2, 1943, and on May 5 those left from this group were waiting to be transferred to Stanley (see May 7, 1943).

According to University historian Peter Cunich, one of today's exams is held during an air raid.

A passage in today's talk by G. P. de Martin on 'Words' gives us another glimpse of intellectual life in the Camp:

I have been reading some Niet(z)sche lately and in one of his pungent passages he writes 'Insanity among individuals is rare but with parties and nations it is the rule.'

Sources:

Matriculation: Peter Cunich, A History of the University of Hong Kong, Volume 1, 2012,  409, 540.

Macey: http://brianedgar.wordpress.com/?s=macey

Talk: G. P. de Martin, Told in the Dark, undated but perhaps 1946, 35-36

Note:

For today's lecture see Barbara Anslow's diary entry.