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• Introduction

• Conditions at North Point

• The move to Argyle Street

• Prisoner of war clothing

• Food in the camp

• Diseases in the camp

• Evacuation of the prisoners

Evacuation of the prisoners

Towards the end of World War Two the Japanese moved all of the prisoners from Argyle Street to Shamshuipo. After the war had ended American forces flew over Shamshuipo and released by parachute large boxes of food which burst open when they hit the ground.

Admiral Sir Frank Twiss describing food being dropped into his Japanese prisoner of war camp at the end of World War Two (RNM)

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Parachute used to drop supplies to Japanese prisoners of war (RNM)

At a later date a Royal Air Force plane came very low over the camp and dropped a brown envelope. It contained a letter telling the prisoners that the allies knew their location and that they should remain there. The Royal Navy sent the hospital ship HMS Oxfordshire to Hong Kong where it collected those prisoners who were seriously ill. HMS Euryalus arrived later to take the remaining prisoners back home.