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We had a few hours sunshine daily which is more then some of the other Hotels got. The Management did its beat to improve conditions.
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After a series of agravating false starta we were finally transported by see round to Stanley. The first to arrive did a good deal of rummeging for themselves.
conditions there were were not by any means the first filthy. It tood days to clear up the muck and to get the dead properly buried. The flies w re legion and are still a
The Internment Camp grave menace for lack of disinfectants. lies between tanley Village and the goal - and include a St. Stephen'a College, the Preparatory School now housing the Consulates five bungalows and the former English and Indian Werders Quarters. In addition to the British in the lists there are about 250 Americans, 60 Dutch and just before we left sone Belgians.
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Living conditions in the Camp are disgracefully cramped You perhaps will find someone who recollects Dr. Pope's bungalow we housed 47 in one of a similer size A four-roomed bungalow four adults for example to a servanta room, 10 men in a bedrɔɔm This is typical of living conditions throughout the Camp. Average space per person about 20 sq. feet. Indian arders married quarters, 2 amall rooms 10 x 10 housing 7 adults. The Americana got there first, and went into three blocks of former British Warders married quarters. By acrounging they were able to set themselves up with beds and furniture - those who came later were out of luck - The last arrivals were from the Peak District - Generally throughout the British section I estimate there is an average of no more then
The one bed per four suults an equal shortage of mattress.9, elderly people naturally found these conditions most distressing There are still numbers without beds or mettresses and avart from some Camp beds and mattresses which Jelwyn Clerk was able to scrounge, there has been to date no effort on the part of the Japanese to supply deficiencies - Co-inoidentally during the cold weather of February and January much hardship was perienced by the shortage of blanketa - the elderly people again particularly suffering,"
I came down to the Stanley Internment Camp, with others who had remained on the Peak, on the morning of 24.1.42. Lorries were sent up for mettres:ee and heavier articles.- we were then marched down the Peak at approximate- ly 8-30 .m. Again the older people feeling this much
Most more keenly then the younger and stronger crowd, were also carrying basketa. On arrival at tatue quare the Japanese examined our effects for cameras, binoculars and revolvers this examination was not very thorough and easy to evold I with others strolled over to the side of the roa to where people who had already had their lug age examined
We were then were standing and this was not remarked on. merched off and when I say arched we just straggled along the
to where the Preya in a rough fornetion of four abreast Jardine Matheson boats used to tie up- there we boarded a launch and after some time landed at Stanley.
Here I was most lucky in being asked, with seven other women from the Peak, to join up with one of the bungalows leas fortunate people from the Peak went to the Indian Verders
I WAS quarters - this bungalow, with us, housed 47 people in a room 13′6′′ x 13'6" with these seven others making in our room a full total of eight in all. Three had camp beds and fou mattresses, my mattress got lost on the way so I was for the first week sleeping on the floor - here again I might say I was fortunate in the floor being e wooden one many were sleeping on concrete floors. Later one of the w
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