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CONFIDENTIAL
1111 Beaver Hall Hill
Montreal.
6th December, 1943.
iss Gladys Collard. (Government Nursing Sister, arrived in the Colony
February, 1941).
Kiss Collard looks the picture of health and is extremely cheerful and anxious to get to work after a minimum period of leave.
Sho wishes to con- tinuo in the Colonial Service and will gladly and readily servo in any part of the Empire at the discretion of the London authoritics. Her address in Canada is Asa Court, Suite, 17, Langside Street, Winnipeg. She will report to Ottawa and will submit a brief account of her experiences in Hong Kong.
Miss Collard was one of the 13 European Nursing Sisters who stayed with Dr. Hargreaves in Kowloon Hospital on July 13th after the entry of the Japanesc. About the 15th December, 1941, she was lodged in the Chinese Y.W.C.A. in Kowloon and was permitted to take with her her Chinese patients who were accommodated in the near-by Kwong Wah Hospital. After two. wocks they were removed to tho Kowloon Hotel for a further two weeks were then scnt to Stanley for internment.
The following are the main points of her story:-
Camp morale has been good but has been deteriorating since the summer. The interncos think and dream about food. Their mental and physical capaci- ties are markedly lowered. Petty quarrels and squabbles are frequent.
The main outward symptons are loss of weight and impairment of vision.
liss Collard confirmed the beneficial effect on morale of the American bombings. Roading between the lines of the Japanese bulletins she was able, with hor colleagues, to form a fairly accurate picture of the course of the
They had no doubt at all of the extent of the Russian successes; they know that the Allies were doing well in the icditerranean area and they know that the Japanese were suffering heavily in the South Western Pacific.
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