11 Jan 1944, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp

'Towkay' King tells Franklin Gimson of the arrest of HSBC banker Hugo Eric Foy. King does not know the charges.

It's probably no coincidence that the Commissioner of Police John Pennefather-Evans also comes to see Gimson today and gives him the names of those suspected of informing to the Japanee:

The list is a long one and naturally gives rise to conjecture as to the safety of anyone in camp.

Source:

Franklin Gimson, Diary, Weston Library Oxford, entry for today

Note:

The nature of the charges has never been clarified. Foy, like almost every other banker was involved in illegal relief work, but the only HSBC staff to be taken for this were Vandeleur Grayburn and Andrew Streatfield in March 1943. It's possible his arrest had something to do with the taking of the Chartered Bank officials which occurred a little later. 

Foy will be sentenced to ten years in prison, transferred to a jail in Canton and be brought back to Hong Kong at the end of the war, re-joining his family in Stanley on August 23, 1945.

It's possible that William Cruickshank of the Chartered Bank is also arrested today. Gimson makes no mention of his arrest until February, but then links his case with Foy's.