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atly Telegraph 3 MAR 1942
3,000 BRITONS IN HONG KONG
DAILY RICE DIET From Our Own Correspondent CHUNGKING, Thursday. Further details are now available of the grim conditions in which British and Allied civilians are living under Japanese rule in Hong Kong.
hese details are vouched for by Miss Phyllis Harrop, a British assis- tant at the Hong Kong Secretariat of Chinese Affairs, who is the first European woman to escape from Hong Kong.
After her arrival at Chungking she stated: "All of the 3,000 British civilians, men, women and children, and the 600 Americans and 70 Dutch are interned on the Stanley Penin- i sula, where Hong Kong's large prisons are situated.
"War prisoners are detained at Shamshuipo and at Argyle-street. Kowloon. Apart from the food scarcity nothing is known of the treatment meted out to them.
"Civilians receive daily two bowls of rice and a very small amount of vegetables, occasionally of fish, but never of meat. A Chinese rice bowl is little larger than a big teacup. No foreign food is available, since all has been shipped to Japan. Visitors are not allowed."
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