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my parole not to try to escape from Macao, I thanked Mr. Gonzales and asked him to thank Mr. Reeves for his message and in the future to make no further efforts on my behalf. Mr. Gonzales seemed to feel that I was unappreciative of
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About that same time permission had been given for third pationals and persons outside Stanley Prison to send parcels of food to their friends at Stanley. Mr. Nemazee had been doing a good deal of work in a quiet way, lending money to British, and at once began sending a number of parcels to Stanley. He brought the attention of the Gendarmerie upon him, and was given three days to leave Hongkong. I saw him the day he was leaving, he was being taken by the Japanese to Tokyo, so he told me, and although he was quiet about, was obviously very much frightened. He was an extraordinarily kind little man, his goodness to our people should have sque recognition when the right time comes.
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After my husband's death, and the departure of Ers. Reeves to Macao reports begen going about St. Stephen's that the place was to be closed down as a hospital, and taken over by the Board of Education and this was done the end of April. I was very sorry to leave. It was situated up on the hills near Morrison Road, above the chinese portion of the town, surrounded by trees, with a most delightful atmosphere of open country, hills, trees, and very lovely song birds. The building itself had pleasant inside courtyards looked on by wide verandahs, the whole atmosphere was sunshiney and quiet and peaceful. big nullah below our room gave us the constant sound of running water and the weather which had moderated in April, allowed us to have our windows open all the time. It was a sort of refuge from the horrors of the town,
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Just below the hospital was the native tom, tightly packed with poorer class houses and a very large market which lined the gutters of Central koad, I was told that this was one of the toughest parts of Hongkong, and can well believe it. I had been going there every day to buy fresh fish and vegetables for my husband. Meat was practically unobtainable still, or tbo doubtful to ris86. I saw the head of a dog for sale, with the carcass, which, had I not seen the head, I would have thought was pork, chinese were buying it as they would any meat. That same morning I saw a woman with a dead kiṭten tied together with her other purchases of vegetables and fish. I was told that people were buying anything they could get, that in kowloon they were eating dead babies. Certainly during the months of February, arch, and April I saw enough dead babies laid out on the rubbish heaps,great mountains of gray filth on every place in the streets which presented a corner or an angle out of the main traffic, usually topped with a little corpse.
Every time I went out on the streets I saw at least one dead body, always men, strangely enough; I never saw a woman's body. It gave me the horrors, they were so emaciated and such a dreadful color. by own husband was losing ground so fast, was beginning to look like them, it was almost more than I could bear, I never told him what I saw in the streets. Dr. Selwyn-Clark told us though that they were picking up on an average of 165 bodies a day, died mostly from starvation.
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