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Released.
Condemned.
Holding pending instructions
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new and limited, and very costly.
"One of the major facts is that, as all industry has ceased, unemployment is rife. This, coupled with the extreme shortage of food, will soon become a major problem for the Japanese to attempt to solve other than by making it possible for Chinese and Porta- guese to leave the Coleny.".
Miss Harrop said that when the Japanese took Hongkong and became responsible for the administration of the population, they dis- claimed any knowledge of the Geneva Convention covering the treat- ment of prisoners: these rules were later supplied by the Seare- tariat who were allowed to approach the Japanese on this matter, but as yet they have not been implemented.
"With the exception of two small military hospitals, the Japanese have now taken over all the chief hospitals and equipment from which the wounded and the sick had twenty-four hours' notice, or less, to quit.
"It is known that Sir Mark Young, Governor of the Colony, is interned at the Peninsula Hotel. He went from the Island to Kowloon on Christmas morning to arrange the terms of surrender with the Commander of the Japanese troops, and aid not return. Ho made this final journey alone. The Colonial Secretary, Kr. Ginson, who only arrived the day before war broke out, is interned at Stanley with all the civilians.
"I am able to confim at first hand that shocking atrocities were committed of which Chinese as well as Europeans were the victims. My own houseboy was killed; he was bayoneted in the stomach for no apparent reason. Fourteen ather Chinese were killed in the same house. My own anah was raped by three or four and was in a very serious conditions when last I heard. Foreign women were also raped ineluding an English woman of my acquaintance, who was first slashed in the face with a soldiers belt. Her husband afterwards found her dead body with bayonet wounds in the stomach. The Japan- ese shot none of their victims, but invariably bayoneted thear to death."
Intelligence School "CH
226/1 Lower Circular Rd., Calcutta.
Date
19.3.42
Xo.
II/162/61
George Top Holmes
Capt.
Intelligence School "C".