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was difficult to do much in such dreadful surroundings and with few medicines and no facilities whatsoever. Committees were formed and good work was doWe in every way to better conditions in the Camp and before I left late in June there was a decided improvement and we were able to receive parcels from friends in Hongkong. Dr. Selwyn-Clarke did wonderful work, traveling back and forth from town to camp every day. His wife also worked very hard at the French Hospital and did all she could for the internees at Stanley. It is impossible to list all the brave acts that were done at Repulse Bay, the Kowloon Hotel and at Stanley Camp, but everyone behaved in the most admirable manner and did all they could to better their own and other's conditions. I es- pecially want to mention the ambulance drivers who did so much for us, and often at the risk of being shot by the Japanese, the many people who volunteered to do the cooking, the sanitary work and general hard work of the Camp. It is amazing what was done with so few facilities and under such difficult conditions. Mr. Gimson, the new Colonial Sec- retary, carried on in the most able manner as the head of the British group. He was a great inspiration and help to all of us.
As far as our treatment in Stanley Camp is concerned, there were face slappings and some of the men were slightly beaten up at times. Some of this was done by the Japanese, but a lot of it was done by the Indian guards at the instigation of the Japanese. We had Chinese warders and wardresses who at first were very disagreeable but when they realized how the Japanese were treating the Chinese in Hongkong, they became very friendly. We were herded together, too many in a room, and many people were without beds or conveniences of any kind. The first few months the food was terrible and there was a great deal of illness, such as dysentery, beri-beri, etcetera. There were also a number of deaths. Everyone lost weight and some of the men lost seventy pounds. Mr. Shields who had a very severe illness lost sixty pounds and I myself lost thirty-five, and when the Japanese agreed to repatriate the Amer- icans, my doctor who was at the camp said that is was absolutely nec- essary for me to go with them if possible, as I had also been quite ill. I left with the Americans on June 30th on the Asama Maru. We were very well treated on that ship and were given good food and good quarters, and were not molested in any way by the Japanese. We were transferred at Lourenco Marques to the Gripsholm where we were wonderfully looked after, and arrived in New York City on the morning of August 25th, 1942.
I have given a similar report to the War Department, Washington, and to the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Bureau of Strategic Services, New York. It has been possible to give only an outline of all that happened and absolutely impossible to convey more than an idea of the terror, horror, sordidness and deprivation endured by all of us, and still being endured by those who remain interned at Stanley Concentra- tion Camp.