The Maryknoll Mission, Hong Kong 1941-46
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with a tie game between the Americans and the Police, with a score of 5 to 5. Darkness and the eight o'clock curfew prevented the game from being played out. Some of the British teams are beginning to get quite good and the Americans will have to look to their laurels! Before the Americans left on the Asama Maru, since they were not allowed to take much U.S. currency with them on the boat, Father Troesch very wisely arranged to take their cash and gave them a note to Maryknoll, New York. This gives us some ready cash for our living in Hong Kong, and for our travel expense to the interior if we shall be allowed to leave the Colony.
22----Minstrel show on the Green—quite good. The evenings are beginning to get cool and blankets are brought out,
Sunday - uneventful.
24 — Americans, 5; Police, 3. More packages from town, via "The Hill". This extra food, which Sister Paul is sending in for us and for the Sisters, is very much appreciated.
25-Usually after signing one's papers for release, one is allowed to leave within four days, but to date we have received no further word, so we sit and wait until the Foreign Office gets good and ready to allow us to walk the streets of Hong Kong as free men again.
26-29 Police, 34; College, 10; a very good crowd and lots of fun. Entertainment in the evening on the Green.
Sunday Weather cool. Swimming still popular, though the crowds are thinning out on the beach. From two to five hundred at one time.
31-High wind and quite cool. Against the uncertainty of our departure, language school classes begin again. Our rations continue as hitherto, though our cooks are striving valiantly to dish it up in as appetizing a style as possible with the material to work with. Water spinach is still our standby, and has been dubbed by someone "rubber plant."
SEPTEMBER
1-The wind and the rain continue, playing havoc with the soft-ball schedule. More speculation about British repatriation. The days continue to come and go, and yet we have no word about our departure.