In 'The lives of Agnes Smedley', it says: Selwyn-Clarke was secretary of Madame Sun's China Defense League and had been a go-between for Madame Sun and Agnes...
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Jul 1, 2009 8:40 am
David, I imagine that puts it pretty accurately. Secretary in a formal sense, rather than today's sense of personal assistant. Regards Tony...
Thanks Brian and the others who have contributed to this topic. This brought me to James Bertram's book The Shadow of War published in 1947 and I am including...
Loose Sea Mines Before the war there were some minefields in the seas around Hong Kong. The intention was to sink hostile warships or keep them away out of ...
Thanks to all who replied to my question about HS-C. Sorry for the delay - I've spent 11 exhausting but wonderful days in Tibet, and am in Chengdu re-arranging...
Don - Interesting to read about those loose mines - how lucky you children were not to have been injured! When a child, with my family I sometimes visited...
Donald, I read with interest your description of the loose mines on Cheung Chow Island. If you remember, our family also lived on Cheung Chow Island before the...
Barbara - Re water rationing How lucky the Yanks were not to have any water rationing in Stanley! I don't remember our loo there, but have seen those high...
Laura: Very interesting. Pretty scary what Howard et al did with the mine! I can guess why "the British Navy" were upset, though. That was probably the local...
Don Forget to mention in my previous message that the 4-roomed flat was occupied by 25 internees, including a young couple with infant who lived in the tiny...
Barbara: I was on the top floor in the next to southmost apartment, in the room close to the kitchen in the American building. That may have been the largest...
Don, I was browsing books in the library and came across 'Hong Kong Metamorphosis' by Dennis Bray. I thought you might find it interesting if you haven't...
Thanks, David. I'll put it on my look for list! Being a "mish kid" was actually a quite rich life, in retrospect, though most of us were not in any position...
Dear Jill McNichol, We last corresponded in August 2008, about your aunt Bee Bicheno, who was interned in Stanley Camp. I wonder how your search has been...
Hi Geoff, I was wondering if in the book you ever came across either Charles Thomas Evans or his wife Audrey Victoria Francis Evans (Greenfield) regards...
Dear William, Charles Evans is listed in Greg Leck's book Captives of Empire, p 625 - the entry reads: "Evans, Charles Thomas, age 38, Brit, merchant, entered...
Finding Bea's book after all these years is straight out of a movie script! It is so cool. I can't wait to see Jill's reply when she reads this. Laura Darnell...
I hadn't come across James Bertram's book before and Ian's excerpt sent me off to the library. There's a fascinating account of life in HK just before and...
Tony has a rather worn photo of old HK harbour in his July blog (hongkongwardiary.com for anyone who hasn't got it bookmarked, it's a marvellous resource). It...
I hadn't realized the photo was a bit lopsided so in case anyone was planning to frame it (joke) I've scanned it again. John To: stanley_camp@yahoogroups.com ...
And here it is. John To: stanley_camp@yahoogroups.com From: johnhk31@... Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2009 14:20:17 +0000 Subject: RE: [stanley_camp] Hong Kong...
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Aug 3, 2009 11:55 am
John, Thanks for this. The one I put on my site is actually a clipping from a poorly-preserved metre-long photo of the whol harbour. The parts of the photo...
John - In case you haven;t the book 'The Private Life of Old Hong Kong' , several pages therein are about Hilda in a chapter called 'Red Hilda and Other War...
John and Barbara I have just read a novel The Piano Teacher by Janice Y K Lee. Published in the last few years . A readable story The story starts in 1953...
Yes, it is fiction! Therefore one shouldn't be critical...but she didn't give it to Tony Banham to read until after it had been submitted to the publisher so...
