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Just prior to repatriation, all Canadians were assembled in the Japanese headquarters, and were there read the "rict act". In so many words we were all warned, or actually the word 'threatened would be more appropriate, that. if on our arrival home, we were met by nowsmen, any news we communicated to them would eventually reach Lisbon and so to Japan, and if any details we gave were adverse or exaggerations of the truth as to the conditions under which we had been existing for the past 21 months, then reprisals would be taken against those left behind..
Such a threatening, was of course just about the best propaganda we could have asked to leave with, however, little did they realize that.
The reaction of the rest of the internees when they heard of this threat was that they could not be made to suffer any more than at present, and that when we arrived home, wo wore to tell everything we knew,
And so, basing this report on official figures brought out of Camp with me, I have here hoped to give some idea of the conditions in the Stanley Camp, under which 2,500 persons are still living, without exaggeration, but with the necessary adverse comments.
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E. D. Robbins,
Health Inspector,
Hongkong Medical Department.
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