30 Dec 1945, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp

Franklin Gimson writes to Selwyn Selwyn-Clarke from his Yorkshire home.

The doctor - back in England and recovering from his wartime ordeal - had written to him on the 27th. informing him of the death of Constance Lam, which Gimson rightly says is a great blow to Selwyn-Clarke personally as well as to the social welfare of Hong Kong. He states that he's been collecting material for a report on Stanley conditions, but that the Colonial Office doesn't seem anxious to learn more than they've already heard about the occupation. Nevertheless, he's planning to devote some of his leisure to an account of the camp, and he urges his correspondent to consider a similar account of life outside. He concludes:

I hope you are regaining your health but {probably a mistake for 'and'} you have dispelled the disability in your leg. I recollect you said that diathermic treatment was all that was required.

I am gradually returning to normal but would prefer a more active life to the leisure a country existence imposes.

With best wishes for 1946.

Source:

Letter, Gimson to Selwyn-Clarke, December 30, 1945, Selwyn-Clarke Papers, Weston Library, Oxford