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President of the American-supported Lingnan University had been put to death by being thrown into the street. He gives us his source "a friend recently arrived from Hong Kong." (Note. The Lingham University has had hospitality in Hong Kong since the taking of Canton in 1938.)
J. A. KEMPF, Reformed Presbyterian Mission, Takhing, West River, which is in Kwantung not very far from Hong Kong, says on 9.2.42 that Chinese who have drifted down from Hong Kong report that all missionurios are concentrated at'a large mission- ary boarding house in Kowloon under restrictions. Th. food supply is very short and many Chinese are starving. He makes no mention of any atrocities or ill-treatment.
"MARY", writing from Kukong, N. Kwantung on 11.2.42 states that some British men who had escaped hd arrived there and sho mentions one of the men referred to in para 8 above. She confirms their report exactly and adds that medicine is denied to sick men,
ROCLR ARNOLL of Y. M. C.
Kweiyang on 19.3.42 says th.t more Britishers have escaped from Hong Kong which is marvelous as the internment camps are on the island. They say little about how they got away, presumably not to crump the style of future escapers. He makes no mention at all of conditions there or of atrocities.
MRS. H. W. WORLEY writing on 1.3.42 from Foochow says that reports from Hong Kong as to the treatment of the 'whites' there are pretty terrible. On of the seminary graduates had arrived from Hong Kong the previous day. He had left on Juny. 23rd und said that hundreds of British and American and Dutch men had been sent to Formosa for hard labour. Conditions were pretty bad. (Note. This Formosa story has been printed in a paper in Halay some time ago I believe early in January but I have not heard it 1sowhere.)
There are five writers who give no source for their state- ments. MISS C. 11. GREEN of the Methodist Hospital, Kunning, says on 18.2.42 "lets had con through that day that thirty of the H. K. Electric Co. staff had been lined up and beloaded... the Japs went to the hospitals and raped all the foreign nurses. Those who made a fuss were taken out and shot.... ..many of our mon were bound hund nd foot and bayonetted through their midles. It was a common sight to see Britishers being slapped in the by Japanese sentries for fuiling to salute." This lady is probably missionary nd will certainly hear very runcur among the Chinese. It is not so likely that she has actually mot British escapers, as the missionaries in Kunming used to have little social contact with the British circle there, and if she hud hud first-hand news, she surely would have been more definite about her source. Experience has shown in this war that the Chinese are very susceptible to rumours.nd that runours move and grow among them very fast indeed. The hospital story is un easy step from a report of the two authentic cares given above.
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RUTH E. BANKIRK of Chengtu, Szechuan in the far West, gives as her source unspecified eyewitnesses, "both foreign and Chinese". She writes on 28.2.42 that these people who have escaped "tull everything that is happening to foreigners and Chinese in Hong Kong
a repitition of N. nkin. Truck loads of foreign women tuken to the Japanese burrucks. One Chinese man protesting against the rape of foreign women got his eyes gouged out so that he would not see what was happening and then when they finished with the women he was killed." She recounts a cise of rane and murder in Chinese household. It seems unlikely that this American(her English betrays this) lady missionary in so distint a place has had personal contacts with escupers, l the r..furence
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