The Archive · 1940

Hongkong Internees

Hongkong, Mar. 25.

As the \esult of an experiment lasting one and a half months, a system of self-government is likely 0 be permanently adopted in the intern ment camp for Chinese soldiers here.

The 740 inmates have a court justice, a vigilance corps, Chinese and English schools, a library, singing closees, a theatre, 9 hospital, sanitary land hygiene organizations, a workshop, garden, sports and competitions, and hairdressing shop.

All' their leaders are elected by popular vote. The experiment started on February 1, when the internal administration of the camp was transferred from the police to the medical authorities Reuter.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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