https://www.scmp.com/rss/325387/feed Brian Edgar was born in Hong Kong's St Paul’s Hospital where his parents lived during the first part of the Japanese occupation. He has taught in universities in Britain and China and is currently an Honorary Research Associate at the University of Exeter. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Soon after dawn on Sunday, May 2, 1943, a contingent of Japanese marines made a dramatic entrance into the compound surrounding St Paul’s Hospital, in Causeway Bay. Behind them was a team of gendarmes from the Kempeitai – the dreaded “Japanese Gestapo”. They had come to arrest Dr Percy Selwyn Selwyn-Clarke, Hong Kong’s former director of medical services, who had been allowed to remain outside the Stanley civilian internment camp to act as a public health adviser to the Japanese. The Kempeitai... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/2114153/witnesses-horror-allied-civilians-wartime-hong?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/2114153/witnesses-horror-allied-civilians-wartime-hong?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 08 Oct 2017 01:15:00 +0000