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"My last letter to you was posted on Fob. 25 in order to catch the plane and I hope you received it will a minimum of delay. I shall be interested in knowing just how long my letters take to reach you. Shortly after my last letter had left my hands, in/ormation ouine to me from two or throe different sources regarding past events in Hongkong. It appeary that women
and children were gathered from their homes in the locality of my flat and marched away to 2nd and 3rd rate ühinese hotels situated in the somewhat congested Chinese central district of the island. They carried with them suitcases, bundles of clothing and bedding and were herded together some ten to a small room in these hotels. They are allowed no freeda, the food is very poor mainly rice and beulis and they receive no medical care. I cannot help but conclude that Kitty and foggy are amongst them I do hope that they have not boen seperated. is long as they can keep their health and nothing worse happens or has happened to them, well, it is some consolation to be able to think along those lines. It is difficult to do so und my heart is often full of misgivings. The reputation of the Japanese is too well-known out here for me to fool otherwise. What a hopeless situation for the poor darlings espacially if this beastly wur continues for a further two or three years. And I am so damne helpless. Cunnot do a thing for thom; cannot even send money to them. üf course, they are not alon in their sufferings . The other poor women must be feeling it pretty badly, particularly those with small children. Axis partners are certainly having a terrible force of pent- up hatred adowmulated against them. There should be no shor: memories about his war when the tide begins to turn. I could do a pretty good job or enlightening some of these swines myself and, as Stalin says "Hitlers come and go but the German people and the German state romain". Roll, then the Japanese took over llon keng, their usual gaze of women- hunting took place and many poor Chinese in certe in districts suffered terribly. Different groups of Japanese soldiers visited and searched the same houses tins and time again always in search of women besides other things. The Chinese in some districts beat gongs ( and orass basins) to warn their neighbours of the approach of the soldiery. The
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