08 Sep 1943, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp
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Three members of the Triads are arrested close to the camp. They are on their way to a rendez-vous at the barbed wire - probably to recieve information to be transmitted outside Hong Kong.
They are accused of being in a forbidden area, but, in spite of torture, they refuse to reveal the purpose of their mission before they are executed.
Source:
F. W. Shaftain's Memoirs, p. 5 at https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IFHSG5WKSSBn1fPQJQueH53-UWiThFYP/view
Note:
Shaftain was Director of Criminal Intelligence in the Police in December 1941. Three days after the Japanese attack, he heard of a Triad plan to end the war by massacring the Europeans on the island. He asked some leading Chinese Nationalists to arrange a meeting with the Triad heads, and, in circumstances that have never been completely clarified, arranged to pay them a large sum. As today's entry shows, this bought co-operation during the occupation as well as the abandonment of the massacre plan. There were many different Triad factions in Hong Kong at the time, and, although some supported the Japanese, others, as in this case, became part of the British inteligence network.
