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Notes Preface and Introduction 1. Wilhelm Snyman, ‘The John Reeves Memoir, “The Lone Flag”: Lifting the Veil on Wartime Macao’, Revista de Cultura 23 (2007): 40–55. 2. Edwin Ride, British Army Aid Group: Hong Kong Resistance 1942–1945 (Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1981). 3. Letter dated 5 June 1943 from Lieutenant Colonel Ride, head of the British Army Aid Group in China, to General Grimsdale, military attaché, British Embassy, Chungking (Chongqing), AWM (Australian War Memorial) PR82/068 2/34/10. 4. I am grateful to Jason Wordie for sharing with me their reminiscences on this subject. 5. Letter from Fukui to Telos de Vasconcelos, 15 September 1944. Macao Historical Archives MO/AH/A1/SA/01/25726. 6. AWM PR82/068 2/8/59. 7. Arnaldo Sales’ comment, passed on to me by Stuart Braga. 8. See no. 74 on the main map. Another map in the Braga Collection at the National Library of Australia (1945 MAP G7947.M3 1945) marks the consulate here. 9. Stuart Braga’s report of conversation with Geoffrey Wilson. 10. Adding to the puzzle, the diagram on page 34 lists, under the heading ‘Skyline’, eight guards who were operating from there. This forces one to ask what else was going on at Skyline. 11. This information, including the date of release, comes from a report by Mrs. Mary Erwin Martin of her time in Hong Kong before and after the surrender to the Japanese, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stanley_camp/message /2842 (accessed 3 August 2013). Mr. Martin was consul general in Chungking; they too were trapped in Hong Kong by the Japanese attack. 12. Ken Cambon, Guest of Hirohito (Vancouver: PW Press, 1990), Appendix: Excerpts from War-Crime Trials, http://www.fourthmarinesband.com (accessed 5 July 2013). 13. AWM PR82/068 11/16/23. 14. Dauril Alden, Charles Boxer: An Uncommon Life (Macao andLisbon:FundaçãoOriente, 2001), footnote 11 on page 548. 15. I owe this observation to César Guillen Nuñez. 182 Notes to pp. xxii–13 Macao during World War II 1. Reeves covers the subject of censorship and his own attempts to publish a newspaper. Another breach of strict neutrality was the transshipment of troops through Macao into China. The Japanese also ordered the Portuguese to remove their troops from Lapa, Dom João and Montanha islands. 2. Personal conversation with the author. 3. The game fantan involves scooping up a bowl of beads. These are counted out in groups of four: punters bet on the number remaining at the end—one, two, three or none. 4. Reeves uses the spelling Saion for this ship, but many references use Sai On. 5. See Chapter X of the memoir. The Lone Flag Chapter I The Beginning 1. Correctly the SS Sai On although also referred to as the Xi An. She was a two-decked ferry, 225 feet long and 42 feet beam built at the Taikoo Dockyard in 1924. 2. It was the practice for Malayan Civil Service cadets to spend time in Macao to learn Cantonese. 3. R.G.K. Thompson escaped from Hong Kong and in early 1942 was in China. He did not stay long and joined Wingate in Burma. He went on to achieve fame after the Malayan Emergency as one of the world’s leading experts on subversive warfare. His awards include KBE, CMG, DSO and MC. 4. While Mrs. Reeves was trapped in Hong Kong, their daughter Letitia, aged about five, must have been in Macao with her father. 5. By which Reeves means the Japanese consul, Fukui Yasamitsu. 6. Reeves is presumably referring to the three weeks between the start of the Japanese attack on Hong Kong and the fall of Hong Kong on Christmas Day 1941. 7. Mr. Fletcher was a manager of the Macao Electric Company (see Chapter III). 8. Donald Fletcher, 17, a student at the University of Hong Kong, served as a stretcher bearer during the fighting in Hong Kong but escaped to Macao in February 1942. 9. Lieutenant Colonel E.J.R. Mitchell took part in the defence of Hong Kong and replaced Colonel H.B. Rose as Commander of the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corp (HKVDC) on 20 December 1941. He spent the war as a prisoner of war (POW). His wife, Rose, and their two daughters had been evacuated to Canada in 1940 but returned in 1941 to a rented house in Macao. 10. See references in the Preface for further reading on the Battle...
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