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certain wealthy Chinoso to make available.
Only one of lirs. Zaitzoff's friends has had a glimpse of Dr. Selwyn Clarke since his arrost: ho was exercising in the prison yard at Stanley, supported by two guards and looking in bad shapo.
Dependents of volunteers still internod who have hitherto been paid 50 yen a... month, with 30 yen for the first child plus 20 yen for each additional child, have now been ordered to proceed to the Seminary on Stubbs Road (the section known, I think, as Rosary Hill) for internment. The diet is to be the same as for Stanley and Dr. Canaval and his wife, Dr. Helen Canaval, have been instructed to act as odical supervisors. The Canavals have made attempts to be allowed to remain in Stanley, thus far without success. Incidentally it is interesting to hear that the Chinese volunteers who were released from interment came out nost reluctantly: first because; poorly as they ato inside the camp, they were not sure of cating at all outside; and second because thoy had no desire to work for the Japanese.
There are a fairly large number of short wave transmitters still in use in the Colony. They seem to be concealed mostly in attics and in basements (tho Sahn-Shui-Po camp had two, one of which is still working). Mrs. Zaitzoff had no trouble at all in getting up-to-date news from her friends. The stations most listened to arc B.B. C. through Now Delhi, Chung King, San Francisco and the Russian station in Shanghai.
On one point Lrs. Znitzeff was emphatic. She found the prevailing feeling in the Colony to be a longing for the British to return and convert Hong Kong back to something approaching its former state. They regard the days gone by as a sort of golden age and their hopes and prayers are fixed on their return.. I questioned ìirs. Zaitzoff very closely on this. She stuck to it that it was the British they wanted (not American and not Allied) and she repeated that the feeling was very general. This contradicts opinions expressed by other members of the Hong Kong party: but rs. Zaitzeff was in a better position to form an accurate judgement and her account carries a certain weight. She also said that no Chinese had any doubt about how the war was going or how it would end. They are well abreast of the news.
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