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accordance with the gonfirmation copy of the message
attached hereto. I made the inspection of
camp for prisoners on December 12th in company with the major general
commanding the British troops in South China and certhin
officers of his staff. Every facility was given me for'
securing accurate information and for seeing things se
they actually are. The observations I have to make as
to conditions obtaining in the camp are as follows:
The Camp site.
Immediately after the outbreak of the war prisoncre
of war taken by the British government from various German
Vessels and otherwise werc interned on Stoneoutters'
Island, an island in the harbor of longkong under the con-
trol of the war authorities and in some respects an ideal
place for such a camp. As the rains of the season pro-
gressed, however, there were indications of possible trouble
with malaria. At the same time a larger number of prisoners
were taken than had been anticipated at first and it became
necessary to move the camp to a more commodious site. The
site chosen was on the eastern shore of the Zowloon
peninsula at Hunghom station on the Kowloon-Canton rail-
way and about a mile from Kowloon ferry landing, Kowloon
being the mainland portion of the colony of Hongkong. The
site has been used from time to time as an encampment for
British troops. It occupies a stretch of land along the
sea facing the Lyéemun entrance to the harbor. It is
protected more or less from the chill northern wind of
winter by the surrounding hills but it is open to the winds
from the oosan during the hot weather. The single possib“
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