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6. During the first two days while internment was still in progress no food rations were issued. Internees had to forage for themselves. They could purchase food from the hotels and a few were permitted to go shopping. From a Portuguese source it was chimed that this was retaliation against British treatment of Japanese nationals in Stanley Gaol (internment) who did not receive any rations for the first two days.
7. From the third day food was sent in regularly. Instead of adhering to the mimeographed notices alterations were found more convenient. Flour was difficult to cook, therefore rice was issued. Meat and fish were sent from cold storage rooms. Organisers in charge made out an issue of six ounces (catty measurement) of rice per hec d as they personally considered four ounces insufficient. Later still the firewood, salt and bread arrived. An Irish internee commenting on the food said that there was "rice but precious little of it”.
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While the internees were in the hotels friends were permitted to visit them, generally for a few minutes at the door. Parcels were allowed to be sent in. Indian and Chinese police guarded the camps. Whenever any interse refused to obey the police, who were obliged to see that no internes left the camp, the entire camp was punished and not allowed to receive visitors or parcels for a day or two.
9. Some weeks later the internees were moved in batches to Stanley. They had to march under guard to Test Point where they were sent off in ferries. Here they are occupying the gaol wardens' and officers' quarters, Indian quarters and St. Stephen's College. There
· are three separate camps for American, Dutch and British but the men and women are not separated. Tithin the camp the internees are free
to roam about although they are supposed to stay in their own quarters after 7.30 p..
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Peak residents appealed to remain on the Peak but were ordered to Stanley and being the last to arrive had to occupy the Indian quarters.
11. Visitors are not allowed at Stanley. Even after the Army handed over to the civil Administration this rule was not relaxed. A medical truck was allowed to deliver bread and milk, each child being allowed a bottle of milk per day. Recently two doctors escaped from Hongkong and the privilege of a medical truck was stopped; result, no milk, no bread, and no parcels which outside friends had been sending in.
12. Prior to being sent to Stanley internees were allowed to send for mattresses and clothes if they had any left in their homes. Most internees sent out for small stocks of food.
13. The internees are nor well settled in at Stanley. Most of their time is spent in queueing up for food; they are always hungry. They have a canteen but everything is more expensive than in town and there is not enough to supply everyone's need. The older people were sent back from 3 andey to the French Hospital to be interned there.
14. Internment 18 not compulsory for äuresians or british. subjects who are naturalized or who acquired British nationality by marriage. On these grounds some internees were released. Others elected to stay to be with husbands.or because they have no means of livelihood outside. Some Irish Free State citizens are interned and others who applied for passes as third nationals received them.
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All third nationals are required to have passes and.they are litated to purchase food rationy. Euresians are considered as
<tionals but not all have food ration cards and must queue up st of the Chinese population. Indians are also third
Filipinos too have been released.
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