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This went on for atlleast a day and a night I understood all the Chinese nurses were raped and at least ten foreign women. Miss Paterson hid under a camp bed during the whole of one night and then escaped through the Japanese lines dressed as a Chinese amah'to Bowen Road Military Hospital and reported this state of affairs to Colonel Simpson and Colonel Shackleton who immediately informed General Maltby who protested to the Japanese G.0.C. reminding him that it was particularly requested that there should be no incident of this kind. Rumour has it that the Japanese G. O. C. took strong action having the nine soldiers responsible shot. This is a very garbled account but a full account is in the possession of the Military Authorities.n Hong Kong. raping took place after the surrender.
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Regarding the bayoneting of women at St. Stephens College also a temporary hospital at Stanley - of this I have no definite knowledge.
Thompson says though
"I also heard from "Tootle Begg, an account of the murdering of Major Black, R. A. M. C., another British Officer and three V.A.D. nurses including Mrs. Begg at St. Stephen's temporary hospital. Our troops, mainly Canadians, in retreating at night passed through the hospital and discarded a quantity of arms etc. Major Black made every effort to clear the Hospital of arms. The Japanese following closely behind, considerable fighting took place in and around the hospital. The Japanese on entering killed a number of wounded in the hospital including Major Black. It was not until the following morning that Mrs. Begg and the other two nurses were killed by the Japanese. Begg was in a room adjacent to that in which his wife was killed."
I spoke to Tootie Begg a few times he is interned in Stanley Internment Camp and he naturally feels most strongly about this incident. Mrs. Begg is buried in the Cemetery which is in the confines of the Internment Camp.
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Thompson goes on to say that when he was in the Queen Mary Hospital he received an account from a Canadian Officer who was down with pneumonia an eyewitness account of the massacre of a party of about teen Canadians -
who had surrendered to the Japanese in the fighting around Wong Nei Chong Gap. The Japanese on approaching the surrendered men threw hand grenades into their midst and killed the lot off.
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