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operating until considerably later been if the Japanese had done the job
themselves.
3. My staff did not repair the short-wave broadcasting trans- mitter in Kowloon. I visited it with Major Asano and estimated two months for repairs. We could have had it working in a week or two. The Japanese had it partly working, on much reduced power, in precisely two months.
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4. Later I was examined by Captain Tanaka in charge of Japanese radio telegraphs (not broadcasting). He required transmitters at D'Aguilar to be repaired. I spent some time examining the
Some of the plant and making out reports on what was missing. short-wave transmitters I found were only little damaged. was able to render them more effectively damaged and more difficult to repair despite the fact that I was under the sur- veillance of Japanese officers. After some time I was confront- ed with a squad of Japanese technical assistants and ordered. to have a certain transmitter working within a few days. I demurred and in an interview with Captain Tanaka I succeeded
I did nothing in getting myself laid off from this work. further for the Japanese, and I ascertained later that they were never able to get a single one of our transmitters at Cape D'Aguilar to function. In the end they brought down two of their own from Shanghai.
5. During this period I was kept interned, with some restricted liberty of movement, in the Gloucester Building, with the Postmaster General and six of my staff. The Hon. F.C. Gimson, Colonial Secretary; Mr. (now Sir Grenville) Alabaster, Attorney General; Mr. R.A.C. North, Secretary for Chinese Affairs, and four of my staff were kept in the nearby Frince's Building. Those from Prince's Building were sent into the internment camp at Stanley some time in March and the remainder of us on 14th April, 1942.
6. A small amount of money was given to us by Major Asano when the Kennedy koad transmitter was moved, but beyond this and one bag of rice, we received neither money nor food from the Japanese during the three and a half months we were kept in the Gloucester Building. We considered it our duty, however, to keep ourselves out of the Camp for as long as possible in order to do what we could to obstruct the Japanese war effort and to assist our own. Our funds and food were on the point of exhaustion in mid-April when the Japanese decided to move us into the concentration camp at Stanley.
I have the honour to be,
Sir,
Your obedient servant,
R
Quie
Senior Wireless Engineer.
DE