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The Japanese have a very active police training school from which new policemen are being turned out all the time.
An Italian father, Father Granelli, reported that he had seen Colonel Uguchi, the Director General of Medical Services, behead his cook at a dinner party. Uguchi was annoyed because the dinner was late, or some such thing, called in the cook, bullied him for thirty minutes, and then beheaded him with his sword. A Portuguese lady seeing the whole performance from the opposite house had afterwards to go to bed for a week.
It is Colonel Uguchi who is protecting Selwyn-Clarke and keeping him from internment. At the time of the surrender, Uguchi was a Lieut-Colonel and head of the Civilian Medical Services. Selwyn-Clarke immediately got into touch with him and gave him his house to live in. Uguchi still lives in Selwyn-Clarke's house where Constance Lam, formerly Secretary to the Foreign Auxiliary of the Chinese Red Cross run by Mrs. Selwyn-Clarke, is his housekeeper. Constance Lam, formerly one of the red hot workers for China relief, cannot now say enough in laudatory praises of Uguchi. Selwyn-Clarke's immediate boss wishes to have him interned and is fighting to this end with Uguchi.
A high Japanese official living in the Gloucester compla in ed of the heat, of the fact that he had to eat European food for fear of being poisoned if he ate Chinese food, and of the fact that he did not dare sit in his room with the windows open.
Father Granelli, now in Macao, wishes for a British defeat and an Italian victory, but he is violently anti-Japanese, and doing much anti-Japanese propaganda. He is bitter against the Japanese because of the way in which they have treated the Chinese people, especially in Kowloon where he saw the squatters being shot for moving their belongings after they had been dispossessed with compensation of 50 yen each. His moral indignation was also aroused when the Japanese fixed the allowance for rice at .46 catties per person. Dr. Fehily suggests that Father Graneili should be sent to India to do anti-Japanese propaganda. (!)
Father Cranelli should not know that there was any such motive in his transfer, which would be justifiable on health grounds. Father Granelli is now in Macao. J. P. F. 7
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Stott's escape: Reaction to Stott's escape was very bad. one in the French Hospital was immediately watched, people became afraid to go and see Sloss, no-one could come out of Stanley and now Stanley people are only allowed to go to the French Hospital for two hours instead of for a few days as previously. Selwyn-Clarke sent a message by Dr. Fehily to Macao suggesting that Stott should go back to Hong Kong and give himself up. But when Fehily reached Macao Stott had already left for Free China.
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Third Nationals in Hong Kong are having a very thin time. Irish Fathers gave Ricci Hall to Sasso (?) for the third nationals, but the Japanese took it over. Then the Fathers gave up a section of wah Yan and Sasso is still there. He is very anti-Mussolini and bitter because he says that the British supported him.
The Transocean man was asked to put his name to Japanese written cables, but he refused and returned to Macao. He is now in Shanghai.
Originally the Japanese tried to remove the French Procuration to St. John's and Church Guest House, but the French Procuration refused to go. Now the people have been kicked out of both the French Procuration and Church Guest House. The French Procuration is used as a Japanese club. Government House is pulled down except for the ballroom. Canossa Hospital also knocked
Troops drill in the Botanical Gardens in the mornings and most of the trees have been cut down by the Chinese. The houses on the Peak have been divested of doors, windows, all fittings and woodwork. Queen's College only has the four outside walls left
down.