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TO M.A CHUNG KING
From Commandant, B.A.A.G.
COPY No.2
SECRET
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KUNMING, 21st November,
1944
Ref. INT/HQ/W-01.
SIR MARK YOUNG
The following information was obtained from Commander WOOLLEY, R. who recently escaped from a Japanese gaol in Shanghai. impossible at the moment to pass this back to H.Qs., for inclusion in Y.V.T.E.,it is being forwarded in letter form.
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Source was a P.0.W. in the WOOSUNG Camp in February 1942, when about the 25th of the month, Sir "ARK YOUNG, former Governor of HONGKONG, was brought into the camp. Source was the Senior services officer in the camp and naturally saw a lot of Sir MARK YOUNG who personally gave him the following information.
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(a` HONGKONG. He (Sir MARK was intensely disappointed by the speed with which the enemy captured KOWLOON. Sir MARK held out for 24 hours after General MALTBY recommended the surrender, but when on the 25th December, they knew that the enemy proposed to make a biz attack at 1800 hrs, he knew there was nothing for it but to surrender. When the decision was made he had great difficulty in getting the message across to the enemy. When he did succeed in doing this, he was taken across the harbour to the Peninsula Hotel and was there made to sign the surrender.
The Japanese had a photographer in attendance to photograph the ceremony, but Sir MARK protested and the photographer was sent away.
After signing he was taken straight upstairs to a 2-roomed flat and kept there for 7 weeks and 3 days without seeing anyone at all.
During the first week he made repeated requests to be allowed to go back to Govt. House and collect some of his belongings, but every day he was put off with futile excuses. He was allowed to write to the Colonial Secretary a number of times but the replies were always heavily censored.
After a week or so of this treatment he asked for an interview with the Japanese General. At last this was granted but the resulting interview was not' with the General who captured HONGKONG but his successor. The interview was a fiasco, all his requests being greeted with shouts from the Interpreter "You are defeated , you have surrendered. You will obey": When he asked for news of the forces and our casualties he was curtly told it had nothing to do with him.
After some weeks he was asked whether he knew any private soldiers; on his replying in the negative, the question was repeated again and again. He was given no idea why he was being asked and he had the impression that the Japanese did not believe him.
One evening a. Pte WALLER(?) was brought into his room and slept there that night. The next day they were both taken to KAJ TAK A/d., flown to FORMOSA where they had lunch and then on to SHANGHAI arriving about 1800 hrs.
Source thinks Pte.WALLER belonged to the Middlesex Regt. and had been a batman to an officer who e scaped. WALLER was a superior type who had been studying to be a veterinary surgeon before the war.
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