• maps
  • Map of China, 1945
  • Map of China, 1995
  • Weihsien Compound in 1943
  • Weihsien Compound with street names
  • Weihsien: aerial view
  • Google Earth: Weifang today
  • Street map of Weifang
  • zoom
  • where is the "compound"
  • No.2 Middle-Class-School
  • superposition
  • go to Google Earth
  • altitude: 12 miles
  • altitude: 28830 feet
  • altitude: 7269 feet
  • altitude: 2415 feet
  • altitude: 2183 feet
  • superposition of the compound on the map
  • Map of China 1946 UNRRA
• Topica - archives
  • Year 2000
  • Year 2001
  • Year 2002
  • January to June, 2002
  • July to December, 2002
  • Year 2003
  • January to June, 2003
  • July to December, 2003
  • Year 2004
  • January to June, 2004
  • July to December, 2004
  • Year 2005
  • January to June, 2005
  • July to December, 2005
  • Year 2006
  • Year 2007
  • Year 2008
• Paintings and Sketches
  • General map with ALL the paintings and sketches
  • Father Verhoeven's paintings
  • picture MENU
  • Slide Show
  • Father Louis Schmid's paintings
  • picture MENU
  • Slide SHOW
  • Mrs. Eileen Bazire's paintings
  • picture MENU
  • Slide SHOW
  • Mrs. Gertrude Wilder's paintings
  • picture MENU
  • Slide SHOW
  • Joyce and Eddie Cooke's collection
  • picture MENU
  • Slide SHOW
  • Dr. Norman Cliff's collection
  • picture MENU
  • Slide SHOW
  • Mrs. Ida Talbot's paintings
  • picture MENU
  • Slide SHOW
  • Ted Pearson's collection
  • picture MENU
  • Slide SHOW
  • William A. Smith's sketches
  • picture MENU
  • Slide SHOW
• I-Remember
• printable map (A4) in *.pdf-format
• IRemember from TOPICA
• IRemember from Father Hanquet (31)
• IRemember from Janette LEY-PANDER (7)
• IRemember from George KNISELY-REINBRECHT (12)
• IRemember from Mary PREVITE-TAYLOR (13)
• IRemember from James H. TAYLOR III (16)
• IRemember from Ted PEARSON (10)
• IRemember from Gerald WALSHAM (6)
• IRemember from Jimmy HARRISON (17)
• IRemember from Peter BAZIRE (14)
• 60 Years Later
• Introducing Modern Weifang
• picture MENU
• geography
• map of China
• map of China - Weifang
• road map
• road map - Weifang
• city map + ZOOM
• satelite map
• shadow of Weihsien CAC (hospital near the river)
• aerial view in 1945 from a B-29-bomber
• geo-economy
• climate
• recent history
• our Hosts, ---
• Photos - August 17, 2005
• from Donald Menzi,
• from David Beard,
• slide SHOW
• from Mary Previte,
• from James Taylor III,
• slide SHOW
• from Ted Pearson,
• from Gerry Walsham,
• from Joyce Bradbury,
• Slide Show
• Old 1945-buildings remaining in 2005 ---
• Weifang TV 2007 - Visit to Belgium ---
• LINKS
• SPEECHES
• by ZHANG XINQI
• by ZHANG QUANLIN
• by ZHANG XIHONG
• by Mary TAYLOR-PREVITE
• by Stephen METCALF
• by Gerry WALSHAM
• Written in the local press:
• 60-ans après, par le Père Emmanuel Hanquet
• The Magnificent Seven
  • LETTER: to Internees Weihsien CAC
  • America has Heroes, by Mary Previte
  • From Mary's autograph book
  • photo: James Jess Hannon
  • photo: Liberator Ensign Jim Moore
  • Rescue from the Sky, by Mary T. Previte
  • photo: Ensign Jim Moore being awarded soldiers medal
  • citation
  • Rescue from the Sky, by Mary T. Previte
  • photo: Ensign Jim Moore and Major Stanley Staiger
  • photo: Tad Nagaki, Ray Hanckulak getting soldiers medal
  • photo: Peter Orlich, radio operator
  • photo: Ray Hanckulak, Stanley Staiger, Tag Nagaki, Jim Moore.
  • Finding My Heroes from Weihsien Prison Camp, by Mary T. Previte
  • photo: Sgt Raymond Hanckulak and Sgt. Tad Nagaki.
  • LINK: to Norman Cliff's documents
  • LINK: to Mary T. Previte's collection
  • doc: 1945 - B24 Liberator
  • photo: Armored Angel
  • photo: Jim Hannon and Mary Previte, Palm Springs, California.
  • photo: Mary Previte and Major Stanley Staiger
  • photo: Mary Previte and Jim Moore
  • photo: Mary Previte, Tad Nagaki, Emily Bryant, Alliance, Nebraska, 1998
  • Tad Nagaki by Renita Foster
  • Story 1: Pearl Harbor attack energizes 'Nisei'
  • Story 2: Freed from one camp, he helps liberate
    another
  • Story 3: March to freedom filled with danger
  • Story 4: Veteran “went for broke” to serve country
  • Story 5: ‘Merrill’s Marauders,’ Nisei helped shorten
    World War II
  • Story 6: Soldier becomes ‘Armored Angel’,
    freeing prisoners
  • Story 7: Hiroshima 1945: Japanese-American officer
    finds old home an atomic wasteland
  • Tad Nagaki, November 2007
  • Sallows Military Museum
  • Weihsien Liberator Tad Nagaki and mayor
    Dan Kusek of Alliance, Nebraska
  • Weihsien Liberator Tad Nagaki and mayor Dan Kusek
  • Weihsien Liberator Tad Nagaki and mayor
  • Weihsien liberator TAD NAGAKI
  • --- we met on the morning of November 23rd. Tad's brother, Ma, was there as well as two sisters in law, two nieces, a nephew and some grand nieces and grand nephews
  • Tad Nagaki and his brother with the mayor ---
  • Tad continues to simply say he was no hero ---
• Eric Liddell
  • slide SHOW
  • Introduction portrait
  • Beautiful hymn that soothed Liddell's pain
  • Dedication of Eric Liddell's Memorial Stone at Weifang, China, June 9, 1991
  • The Eric Liddell Monument, by Norman Cliff
  • What Characterizes the Spirit of Eric Liddell, by David Michell
  • Conclusion
  • Significant dates in Eric Liddell's Life
  • Bibliography
  • picture-1: Middle School students - Weifang
  • picture-2: Middle School students - Weifang
  • picture-3: June 9, 1991, David Michell addressing the audience
  • Chefoo and Weihsien (Weifang) revisited, by David Michell
  • picture-4: David Michell addressing the audience
  • picture-5: The audience
  • picture-6: Norman Cliff addressing the audience
  • The Eric Liddell Monument, by Norman Cliff
  • Eric Liddell in Weihsien Camp, by Norman Cliff
  • picture-7: David Michell. Transcription of the monument's text.
  • picture-8: Eric Liddell's grave, as it was in 1945
  • Map of the graveyard (1945) + ZOOM
  • Chinese Grave's Secret: A Famed Runner Rests Here, by Barbara Basler
  • Topica messages
  • picture-9: Eric Liddell's grave in 1991
  • picture-10: Eric Liddell's portrait by Eileen Soper
  • In the Picture, by Andrew Graham-Dixon
  • picture-11: PureGold, foreword by James Taylor III
  • LINK: The Eric Liddell Centre
  • --- more about Eric ---
• Laurance Tipton
  • --- as he was, in 1946
  • photo: taken in 1988 ---
  • Chinese Escapade
  • JAPANESE INQUISITION---
  • KIDNAPPED ---
  • PRISON IN MONGOLIA---
  • COURT-MARTIAL, AND RELEASE ---
  • PAROLE IN PEKING
  • CONCENTRATION CAMP
  • “THIS FUTILE EXISTENCE"
  • PROVINCIAL POLITICS
  • A GUERRILLA PERSONALITY
  • THE BEGINNINGS OF RESISTANCE
  • ESCAPE
  • WITH THE GUERRILLAS
  • CONTACT WITH CHUNGKING
  • EVADING THE JAP'S
  • THE COMMUNISTS ATTACK
  • AN EMBARRASSING POSITION
  • RELIEF OF WEIHSIEN CAMP
  • AND NOW?
  • sketch: GATEWAY TO THE COURTYARD OF THE HAPPY WAY
  • sketch: EXTERIOR OF AN " APARTMENT "
  • sketch: INTERIOR OF AN " APARTMENT "
  • sketch: ROLL-CALL IN THE CAMP
  • sketch: ". . . ADEQUATE ACCOMMODATION HAS BEEN PROVIDED ", ASSURES THE JAPANESE CONSUL-GENERAL IN PEKING
  • sketch: CAMP WALL FROM THE OUTSIDE
  • sketch: JAPANESE SPIES BEING BURIED ALIVE
  • sketch: SNATCHING A MEAL IN A PEASANT'S COTTAGE
  • sketch: A SHORT RESPITE DURING NIGHT MANOEUVRES
  • sketch: THE FORTIFIED ANTI-COMMUNIST BASE AT HSIAO-HOTZE
  • DETAILED SKETCH MAP OF GENERAL WANG YU-MIN'S AREA
  • SKETCH MAP SHOWING GENERAL WANG YU-MIN'S AREA
  • photo: The Liberation Group
• father Louis Schmid
  • slide SHOW
  • map with painting locations
  • THE MAINGATE
  • PLAYGROUND
  • CHURCH INSIDE
  • This sketch from Father Schmid ---
  • PLAYGROUND STREET
  • CHURCHYARD
  • MARKET SQUARE AND SISTERS' QUARTERS
  • MUSIC HALL AND KITCHEN N°3
  • KITCHEN N°1
  • PRIVATE KITCHEN
  • LAZARISTS' QUARTERS
  • HOSPITAL AND SCHEUT FATHERS' QUARTERS
  • SVD QUARTERS
  • AN INTERNED PRIEST
  • SISTERS' ROOM
  • BLACK MARKET WALL (EAST)
  • BLACK MARKET
  • CEMETERY
• father E. Hanquet
  • slide SHOW
  • mémoires, by Father Hanquet
  • Un bref survol de l'Histoire de Chine de 1911 à 1945
  • Les Origines d'une Vocation
  • Les Premiers Pas du Missionnaire
  • Démêlés avec les Japonais
  • TANGLING WITH THE JAPANESE, Translation by Michael Canning
  • Biographie
  • sketch: "Camp de Weihsien : rassemblement"
  • sketch: "Camp de Weihsien: un appartement de 4 personnes, vu de l'intérieur"
  • Photo: prise en 1939 à Tinghsien (Hobei)
  • Photo: Boy Scout Group, Weihsien - 1945 + ZOOM
  • Who's Who ---
  • Photos: a meeting in September 2001 (slide SHOW)
  • la tarte au fromage de Chaumont-Gistoux
  • Photos: Father Hanquet's 90th birthday (slide SHOW)
  • Photos: Exploring documents at the SAM/Brussels (slide SHOW)
  • Father Emanuel Hanquet, by Mr. l'Abbé Palmers
  • Belgian Red Cross, Feb 6, 1944
  • First letter home after camp
  • Father Hanquet's map of China, 1946 (UNRRA)
• Father Verhoeven
  • slide SHOW
  • map with painting locations
  • Assembly Hall
  • Kitchen n° 1
  • Block-23
  • Trees
  • Block-23 (East)
  • Gate - Block 31
  • Bloc-50
  • Bloc-56 and water tower
  • Headquarters and Moon-Gate
  • Beyond the Walls
• father Raymond deJaegher
  • slide SHOW
  • photo 1: The "ESCAPE" team,
  • LINK: Photo from 'Chinese Escapade' (1949) by Laurence Tipton
  • A SUCCESSFUL GETAWAY, by Father Hanquet ---
  • photo 2: 1945 - group picture (recto-verso)
  • photo 3: GROUP-PICTURE 1945-Weihsien
  • photo 4: GROUP-PICTURE 1945-Weihsien
  • doc 1: Father deJaegher's first letter home after camp
  • doc 1bis: translation into English
  • book: THE ENEMY WITHIN by Father deJaegher
  • Father de Jaegher's biography, writen in 1952.
  • the authors
  • Comments on:
  • LINK: more about Father de Jaegher ---
  • Chapter XVIII - CONCENTRATION CAMP-WEIHSIEN(1943-45)
  • photo: Father deJaegher in 1951 (recto-verso)
  • photo: Father deJaegher, Christmas, 1951 (recto-vero)
• father Scanlan
  • book: STARS IN THE SKY, by Father Scanlan
  • front cover
  • back cover
• Mrs. Eileen Bazire,
  • slide SHOW
  • map with picture locations
  • painting: Tin-Pan alley
  • painting: Block-23
  • painting: Weihsien guard tower
  • painting: Weihsien, camp main gate
  • painting: Notice of weekly lecture: Dutch Painting
  • painting: Glee Singers Concert Programme
  • painting: Weihsien concert programme
• Mrs. Gertrude Wilder
  • LINK: to Donald Menzi's familly web-site
• Mrs. Dorothy Potter
  • "THREE STAYED THERE" by Mrs. Dorothy Potter
• Mrs. Ida Talbot
  • slide SHOW
  • map with painting locations ---
  • painting: The children's playground ---
  • painting: The Altar ---
  • painting: The Fallen Wall --- "The Omen"
  • Excerpt from Ida Talbot’s diary of the 4th July 1943 Weihsien.
  • painting: The Assembly Hall ---
  • painting: The main entrance - as seen from out-of-bounds ---
  • painting: Block No.45 ---
  • painting: The village - out of bounds ---
  • painting: Block No.6 ---
  • painting: Cow Shed Road ---
  • painting: Down Ludgate Hill Road ---
  • painting: Blocks 16 & 17 ---
  • painting: The Moon Gate and the red tiles ---
  • painting: The main entrance - closed for the night ---
  • painting: The Shoemaker's Shop ---
  • painting: The Elephant-Bell Exchange ---
  • painting: Block-50 - A bench, a chair, trees and buildings ---
  • painting: The Way to Freedom ---
  • painting: The Cemetery ---
  • painting: The main entrance - as seen from "IN the camp" ---
• Mr. William A. Smith
  • slide SHOW
  • from Topica
  • William A. Smith Biography
  • William A. Smith's article in "Asia and the Americas" magazine July, 1946
  • sketch: the bakery ---
  • sketch: the cook ---
  • sketch: the Eurasian boy ---
  • sketch: the sergeant
  • sketch: Taipan
  • sketch: Hot Water Queue
  • sketch: the Japanese guard
• -------
  • ----FROM:----
• Janette and Leopold Pander,
  • photo: first picture after camp,
  • photo: five sections of a red parachute,
  • doc: Dad's armband
  • a letter to the exterior (June? 1943)
  • the same letter in english
  • doc: identity tags of the whole family
  • doc: a letter from Mr. Strobel (French living in Shanghai)
  • photo: X'mas greetings, via Siberia, 1943
  • Marie Louise Pander,born July 7, 1944 ---
    Written by Miss Dyer.
  • LINK: who was born in Weihsien
  • photo: MaryLou in 1948 (Shanghai)
  • song: "you are mu sunshine ---"
  • news: Les internés de Weihsien dans le Chantong mènent une existence paisible ---
  • news: Les internés de Shanghai mènent une existence paisible ---
  • news: Enemy aliens in North China are now interned ---
  • news: Le Soir (Belgium) May 8, 2005: Prisonnier à l'âge de 2 ans
  • A short trip to Weifang, January, 2006 ---
  • page 1, The Weifang Kites,
  • page 2, The OLD Compound,
  • page 3, The Kite museum and back to Shanghai ---
  • Gay Sancton's visit to Brussels, 2006
  • Weihsien Camp Internees saw no Jap attocities
• Christine Talbot-Sancton,
  • LINK: Christine's photo web-site
  • 
    -- 1) 25 Brownies outside #13
    -- 2) Camp Band
    -- 3) Chefoo Prep School Children, David Michell back left
    -- 4) Rovers and Rangers 20 in all, outside # 13
    -- 5) 18 Rangers
    -- 6) 36 Rovers and Rangers, outside #12/13
    -- 7) Scouts and Cubs
    -- 8) 17 Cubs & Leader
    -- 9) 25 Girl Guides & 2 Leaders outside #13
    -- 10) 8 Scouts
    -- 11) 16 Scouts & Leader outside #13
    -- 12) Arrival in Tsingtao & boarding buses for Edgewater Mansions Hotel by Chefoo students
    -- 13) Tsingtao arrival by train September 25
    Others from David Michell:
    -- 14) Camp Church
    -- 15) Market after end of War outside front gate
    -- 16) Girl near #18
    -- 17) Supplies being dropped Sept. 1945
    -- 18) Block 23, parachute drop
    -- 19) Block 23
    -- 20) Eric Liddell’s room (and Eric Liddell?)
    -- 21) Eric Liddell’s grave

    From Ida Talbot:
    -- 22) Over looking camp from Block 23 tower
    -- 23) Over looking camp, 3 figures in foreground
    -- 24) Milling crowds
    -- 32) Ida and 4 friends 1945

    From Ida Talbot/David Michell:
    -- 25) Kitchen II
    -- 26) 4 unidentified people by Camp Gate
    -- 27) Road Outside Camp
    -- 28) Searchlight Tower
    -- 29) Camp Hospital
    -- 30) Hospital and walls
    -- 31) Camp Bell War Block

  • photo: After the WAR, in Tientsin --- 1946 or 1947 ---
  • Who's who
  • Mrs. Ida Talbot's paintings
  • slide SHOW
  • map with painting locations ---
  • painting: The children's playground ---
  • painting: The Altar ---
  • painting: The Fallen Wall --- "The Omen"
  • Excerpt from Ida Talbot’s diary of the 4th July 1943 Weihsien.
  • painting: The Assembly Hall ---
  • painting: The main entrance - as seen from out-of-bounds ---
  • painting: Block No.45 ---
  • painting: The village - out of bounds ---
  • painting: Block No.6 ---
  • painting: Cow Shed Road ---
  • painting: Down Ludgate Hill Road ---
  • painting: Blocks 16 & 17 ---
  • painting: The Moon Gate and the red tiles ---
  • painting: The main entrance - closed for the night ---
  • painting: The Shoemaker's Shop ---
  • painting: The Elephant-Bell Exchange ---
  • painting: Block-50 - A bench, a chair, trees and buildings ---
  • painting: The Way to Freedom ---
  • painting: The Cemetery ---
  • painting: The main entrance - as seen from "IN the camp" ---
  • Father Rutherford
  • about Father Rutherford, by E. Hanquet
  • Fathers in China --- a group picture ---
  • Christine's visit to Belgium,
• John and Albert de Zutter
  • doc: Boy Scout Association, Athlete Badge ---
  • doc: Boy Scout Association, Book Binder's Badge ---
  • Mrs. G. de ZUTTER'S IDENTITY TAG
  • WEIHSIEN BOY SCOUT BADGE
  • Un pour tous, Tous pour un.
  • photos: Albert's visit to Brussels (2004) ---
  • photos: Albert's visit to Belgium (2007) ---
  • slide show ---
• Ray Moore
  • photo: first picture after camp ---
  • photo: a recent picture ---
  • 5 FEBRUARY 2002: Ray's visit to Weifang --
  • slide SHOW
  • map with picture locations,
  • Windows on My Track, by Raymond Moore
  • photo: Front gate to n°2 Middle School
  • photo: Former Jap residence on left of drive
  • photo: Former Jap residence on right of drive
  • photo: Facing down "Main Road" to former front gate.
  • photo: Entrance to "Eric Liddell" garden
  • photo: The Stone Tablet in memory of Eric Liddell
  • photo: One side of EL Memorial Stone
  • photo: Second side of EL Memorial Stone
  • photo: Former front gate from road
  • photo: View from front gate across stream to Gaoliang fields
  • photo: The Hospital - our first view
  • photo: The Hospital - former main entrance
  • photo: The Hospital - the entrance I remember
  • photo: The Hospital - close up of side entrance
  • photo: "Shadyside Hospital 1924" - chipped away by Red Guards
  • map of Weihsien in 1945
• Joyce and Eddie Cooke
  • Forgiven but not Forgotten, by Joyce Bradbury née Cooke
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Chapter 1: How I came to be in Australia
  • Chapter 2: The Cooke family and me
  • Chapter 3: Growing up in Tsingtao
  • Chapter 4: The Japanese change my life
  • Chapter 5: Teenage prisoner of the Japanese
  • Chapter 6: Liberation
  • Chapter 7: Home to Tsingtao
  • Chapter 8: First-time Sydneysider
  • Chapter 9: Return to Asia
  • Chapter 10: Second-time Sydneysider goes back to China
  • Chapter 11: Reflections on hard times
  • Chapter 12: Thanks Father
  • Chapter 13: The Happy Way
  • Chapter 14: Anoter view of Wei-Hsien
  • Further reading
  • Notes
  • Illustrations
  • map with painting locations
  • painting: the ball field and the watch tower, by Pierre Travers-Smith
  • painting: By Bobby Simmons, now Pamela Masters, 1944.
  • painting: The honey pot man, by Ursula Simmons, 1944.
  • painting: The Gate to Freedom, by Mrs. M.S. Jamieson, 1944.
  • sketch: Weihsien activities, by Tom Nott.
  • Pacific map: prisoner of War Map --- ASIA ---
  • sketch: Block#2, sketched by Joyce Bradbury, née Cooke.
  • 2005: 60 Years later in Weifang ---
  • [click here] to read the book
• David Beard
  • first picture after camp ---
  • --- a recent picture.
  • 1945 - Photos and documents
  • map with locations
  • photo: 1945 - American flag over Bloc-23
  • photo: 1945 - Shadyside Hospital
  • Rare envelope cover 1943-1945 (recto-verso)
  • Rare envelope cover 1943-1945
  • doc: 1945 - B24 Liberator + commentary
  • photo: 1945 - 73RD WING PHOTOGRAPH of Weihsien CAC + zoom + links
  • photo: September 1945 - Weihsien Camp - Main gate
  • photo: September 1945 - The Hospital and a Guard Tower
  • doc: the "Superfortress" B-29 + commentary
  • painting: Weihsien, May '1945 Block-56, The Priest's Shack + links & comments
  • photo: 'Escapees return to Camp' from "Chinese Escapade" by Laurance Tipton
  • doc: The 'Flying Tigers' of Burma / China and their relevance to Weihsien C.A.C.
  • photo: 'Qingdao Railway Station, Sept 25 1945'
  • photo: 'Qingdao Railway Station, Sept 25 1945 --- The Swiss Consul'
  • photo: 'Edgewater Mansions'Hotel, Sept 1945' + link & comments
  • 1945 - aerial views of Weihsien CAC
  • photo and map superposed ---
  • photo: 1945 - American flag over Bloc-23 + zoom
  • photo: 1945 - American flag over Bloc-23 + zoom
  • photo: 1945 - Block 23 and Hospital + zoom
  • photo: 1945 - The compound and surrounding fields + zoom
  • photo: 1945 - The compound + zoom
  • photo: 1945 - The City, a bridge and the river + zoom
  • photo: 1945 - The city and fields beyond + zoom
  • photo: 1945 - The city of Weihsien --- + zoom
  • photo: 1945 - Parachute drops over Wiehsien CAC + zoom
  • photo: 1945 - Parachute in a gao-ling field + zoom
  • 1985 - photos ---
  • map with photo-locations ---
  • 1985 - Weihsien Hospital water tower
  • 1985 - Weihsien Hospital
  • 1986-CACW- former Jap residence
  • 1985 - Weihsien Camp - Block-23
  • 2003 - photos ---
  • map with photo locations ---
  • 2003 - Weihsien city gate, with new addition above
  • 2003 - Weihsien city gate - other side
  • 2003 - 'Block-35, almost in it's original state' + link
  • 2003 - Eric Liddell memorial obelisk
  • 2003 -Former general store building now 'Weihsien Concentration Camp Memorial Museum'. + links ---
  • Sept 2003 - Weihsien camp. Block - 50 + Links ---
  • 2005 - photos --- groups & persons
  • Link: to Weihsien Tourist Park photos
  • map with photo-locations ---
  • 2005 - Group Photo of the Commemoration + ZOOM + NAMES ---
  • --- ex-Weihsien internees at the 2005 celebrations --- + ZOOM + NAMES
  • 'Chefoo Schools ex-Weihsien internees group'
  • Flying Tigers
  • The 'Flying Tigers' of Burma / China and their relevance to Weihsien C.A.C.
  • 2005 - magazine which the Weifang Government
    gave
  • table of contents --- + Links
  • photo: The start of the winding road over the Himalayas from India to China.
  • Generalissimo Jiang Kai Shek, Madame Jiang and Major General Chennault
  • Back-cover
  • 2005 - photos --- the tourist park ---
  • Link: to the "group" pictures ---
  • map with the picture locations ---
  • 208: wide angle picture
  • 176: The Peace Monument in the Happy Way
  • 198: 'Happy Way Square' (Ledao Guangchang).. -
  • 200: the steps/platform on the river side of the 'Happy Way' Square
  • 184: Wall of Remembrance
  • 201: The picturesque miniature bridge from Ledao Square
  • 206: Block 61
  • 213: Dawei Birch & Dawei Beard
  • 213a: Dawei Birch & Dawei Beard, standing at the front entrance of Block 61
  • 203: Tingzi and ornamental lake beside B61
  • 204: The renovated Blocks 60/59 and 58
  • 205: Blocks 60/59 and 58, joined by moongate
  • 209: Combined Blocks 60/59 behind EL monument
  • 152: Banners draped in front of our Weifang hotel
  • 155: Sui Shude is in centre foreground
  • 157: We are greeted by No 2 Middle School students
  • 158: we can see Middle School Historical Exhibition House
  • 159: The Official Dais
  • 160: Close up of the large billboard promoting Peace
  • 165: 'No 2 Middle School Choir'
  • Former general store building now 'Weihsien Concentration Camp Memorial Museum'
  • 170: 'Display in the foyer of Exhibition House'
  • 172: Block 35, spruced up + Links ---
  • 173: Block 50 + Links ---
  • 175: 'Margaret Beard and an elderly lady'
  • 186: First Meeting of the Council of Friendship in Weifang
  • 187: James H. Taylor III speaks for H.K. at the Council of Friendship
  • 216: Yangbai Village kite factory
  • 219: A Colourful Kite in Production
  • 220: The Three Goats, Symbolizing Prosperity
  • 190: Shandong Foton Heavy Industries Co Ltd
  • 191: James Broughton (son of Mary Hoyte Broughton) and Carolyn Christensen, his fiancee
  • 194: Fuwah International Conference Business Centre
  • 232: Former Edgewater Mansions Hotel + Links ---
  • 252: Former Edgewater Mansions Hotel, front view. Now known as Donghai Fandian (East Sea Hotel),
  • 271: The Donghai International Hotel, built in the 1990s
• Donald Menzi
  • Photos of the Weifang 2005 celebrations
  • Mrs. Gertrude Wilder's Paintings
• Ron Bridge
  • first picture after camp ---
  • --- a recent picture
  • British Civilians Interned by the Japanese During WWII
  • Map of Weihsien with BlockNumbers and Who lived in ---
  • TicTacToe-list with BlockNumbers
  • The complete list of Weihsien Inmates (*.xls-file)
  • The Peking Chronicle
  • Journal de Shanghaï, 24 août, 1943
  • Le Journal de Shanghaï, 3 juillet 1943 ...
  • 73rd Wing Photoghaph © David Beard
  • The Peking Chronicle -- scenes from Weihsien
  • The Peking Chronicle -- scenes from Weihsien
• Mary T. Previte
  • first picture after camp ---
  • --- a recent picture
  • copy of: a letter of thanks
  • AMERICA HAS HEROES I KNOW THEIR NAMES, by Mary Previte
  • photo: Assemblywoman Mary Previte embraces her rescuer, James Moore of Dallas
  • from Topica: My saga of finding these heroes who liberated Weihsien started in 1997.
  • photo: I remember September 10, 1945, the day six of us Chefoo children ---
  • photo: GIRLS FROM CHEFOO'S LOWER SCHOOL DORMITORY
  • The Philadelphia Inquirer Magazine August 25, 1985.
  • A Song of Salvation at Weihsien Prison Camp, by Mary T. Previte
  • photo: a child in captivity
  • photo: a B-29 low over Weihsien ---
  • photo: scouts and guides ---
  • photo: the hospital, became our dormitory ---
  • poster: weekly lecture
  • photo: This 1945 reunion photo ---
  • 1997 The Shawnee News-Star
  • A schoolgirl POW thanks her rescuers a half-century later
  • photo: four of seven paratroopers who rescued Mary Previte---
  • SouthCoastToday 1998
  • HomePage
  • Previte's Magnificent Seven, by By Melanie Burney
  • 52 years later, ex-pow thanks her rescuers, by Melanie Burney
  • Assemblywoman seeks out group that rescued her from WWII camp
  • The Houston Chronicle 2000
  • HomePage
  • Sept. 11, 2000, Former captive recalls U.S. liberation of camp, by BOB TUTT
  • Web Site, CBI 2002
  • HomePage
  • The Tad Nagaki Story, by Mary Previte
  • The Dallas Morning News, Sunday, November 30, 1997
  • HomePage
  • Student held by Japanese tracks down her rescuers 52 years after liberation, By John McCoy
  • New Jersey The Star-Ledger May 29, 1998
  • HomePage
  • Embracing her savior from WWII, Legislator was held in Japanese camp, By Michael Raphael
  • Sunday World-Herald January 11, 1998
  • HomePage
  • World War II "Angels" Are Not Forgotten, BY PAUL HAMMEL
  • Tad Nagaki by Mary Previte
  • Good Housekeping May 2001
  • HomePage
  • Finding her angels, by Debra Gordon
  • ERIC LIDDEL Remembered
  • Red Cross message --- January 28, 1945 --- signed: David Michell
  • Maltabella is made from Gao-Liang !
  • Gao-liang ? by any other name
  • movie
  • Chefoo School logo:
  • TAYLOR FAMILY REUNION, Fenghsiang, Shgensi, September 1945.
  • Rescue from the sky. Hommage to James Moore.
  • voice: NPR broadcast May 11, 2000
  • Film: The National WWII Museum, New Orleans
• Norman Cliff
  • THE LIFE & TESTIMONY OF
    NORMAN HOWARD CLIFF, 1925-2007 (scroll down)
  • first picture after camp ---
  • --- a recent picture
  • Norman's badge
  • Norman's pass in Chefoo
  • Norman's pass in Chefoo ---
  • copy of a pass - in Chinese - delivered by the British consul, 1937
  • a badge received in Tsingtao after liberation,
  • --- a brief history ---
  • A brief history of Weihsien, by Norman Cliff
  • The First College in China, y Moses Chu (in Chinese)
  • The Boxer Rebellion
  • THE BOXER REBELLION, By Norman Cliff
  • Documents and Archives
  • document: The National Archives: May 14, 1942
  • telegram: November 5, 1942
  • telegram: November 9, 1942
  • telegram: March 11, 1943
  • telegram: March 26, 1943
  • telegram: April 24, 1943
  • Chungking, May 1, 1943: from the National Archives
  • Chungking, May 19, 1943: from Special Division
  • Tsingtao, July 8th, 1943: by Air Mail Pouch
  • Chefoo, China, Temple Hill Internment Camp, August 26, 1943
  • November 9 + 10, 1943: Mr. A. Jost's visit.
  • REPORT ON WEIHSIEN CIVIL ASSEMBLY CENTER: November 11, 1943
  • Life of Foreign Internees at Weihsien, Shantung: Chungking, December 17, 1943
  • Weihsien camp, Bern, March 9, 1944
  • CONDITIONS IN WEIHSIEN CAMP, Headquarters Hsiao Ho Tzu. 26/6/44
  • Condition of the Internees at Weihsien; Possible Methods of Assisting them
  • Civilian internment camp Weihsien: November 25, 1944
  • Civilian internment camp Weihsien: Bern, November 1, 1944
  • number of internees rather large but camp cannot (repeat not) be considered overcrowded: May 3, 1945
  • From Tipton and Hummel: May 8, 1945. 10 a.m.
  • telegram: June 25, 1945
  • telegram: July 20, 1945
  • telegram: August 27, 1945
  • How it all began ...
  • ---leaflet dropped over Chefoo in February 1938
  • Dr. Calvin Mateer (1836-1908) -
  • Block-23 in 1900 ---
  • Boys' School in Weihsien, as it was in 1900
  • Girls' School in Weihsien, as it was in 1900
  • Mens' Dispensary in Weihsien, as it was in 1900
  • Womens' Dispensary in Weihsien, as it was in 1900
  • The Hospital, as it was in 1900
  • BRITISH CIVILIANS INTERNED BY THE JAPANESE DURING WORLD WAR II, By RON BRIDGE
  • Photographs, Then & Now ---
  • 1945
  • map of Weihsien with photo locations ---
  • What did Weihsien Camp look like?
  • An aerial view of part of the camp, showing the single room family accomodation.
  • The approach to Weihsien Camp over a rough muddy road.
  • The Church / Assembly Hall
  • The bell which called the internees to Rollcall twice a day.
  • Rollcall, sketched by Godon Martin.
  • The Medical Regulation Re Roll Call
  • Roll Call check-list
  • Norman Cliff's Badge
  • Headquarters
  • The Bell, by Mrs. Wilder
  • A family outside their small room
  • The Hospital and a Japanese watchtower, taken from outside the camp.
  • Tania and Sylvia Tchoo standing in front of the hospital.
  • Tania Tchoo standing outside Kitchen 1, which fed about 700 people.
  • Scouts, Guides, Brownies and Cubs..
  • Scouts, Guides, Brownies and Cubs..
  • A watchtower taken from outside the camp
  • AIR DROPS ON POW/INTERNMENT CAMPS, SEPTEMBER 1945
  • Air Drops
  • The Church / Assembly Hall
  • The Church,
  • The Hospital,
  • The fields beyond the wall,
  • Bloc-23
  • Two towers,
  • Block 47
  • Men's Room, inside ---
  • Kitchen One,
  • Cultivating coal balls,
  • Dormitory, inside ---
  • Men's dormitory, inside ---
  • LINK: to Christine Sancton's
    Web site
  • 1984
  • Block 23 in 1984 - It was subsequently demolished ---
  • Edgewater Mansions. It is now called Dong Hai Hotel. - Eastern Sea Hotel ---
  • 1985
  • LINK: to David Beard's visit to Weifang,
  • Edgewater Mansions. It is now called Dong Hai Hotel. - Eastern Sea Hotel ---
  • 1991
  • photo: David Michell addressing the audience
    - Weifang -
  • The Eric Liddell Monument, By Norman Cliff
  • photo: June 9, 1991, David Michell addressing the audience
  • CHEFOO AND WEIHSIEN (WEIFANG) REVISITED, by Dr. David Michell June 28, 1991
  • photo: June 9, 1991, David Michell addressing the audience
  • photo: Middle School Students - Weifang -
  • photo: June 9, 1991, Norman Cliff addressing the audience
  • ERIC LIDDELL IN WEIHSIEN CAMP-1943-1945, By Norman Cliff
  • photo: June 9, 1991, middle School Students - Weifang -
  • photo: June 9, 1991, the Audience - Weifang -
  • 2002
  • LINK: to Ray Moore's visit to Weifang ---
  • 2003
  • LINK: to David Beard's visit to Weifang ---
  • 2005
  • photo: Weifang, June 13, 2005. with Zhang Xihong
  • photo: --- a visit to London ---
  • photo: --- a visit to London ---
  • photo: Norman --- (portrait)
  • Paintings & Sketches
  • LINK: to "Paintings & Sketches"
  • Map of Weihsien with painting locations --
  • painting: a farming village which could be seen from the hospital
  • painting: a GuardTower(near Lovers Lane)
  • painting: Block 23 on the right.
  • painting: Mateer Memorial Church - named after Calvin Mateer (1836-1908),
  • painting: Watchtower near Hospital.
  • Sketched by A.G. Cameron
  • sketch: Jap watchtower at corner of the sportsfield.
  • sketch: Married Quarters
  • sketch: Watchtower near Hospital.
  • sketch: Staircase ??
  • sketch: Basket Ball Field.
  • sketch: Entrance of camp, taken from the inside
  • sketch: Artist's impression of the front gate of Weihsien Camp.
  • painting: coloured parachutes bringing food
  • Sketch of M.C. Halton
  • Sketch of Mr W. Pryor,
  • Sketch of Mr J.C. Stewart
  • Rollcall, sketched by Godon Martin.
  • sketch: Camp Wall from the outside
  • Map of Weihsien---on a bib -----------
  • behind the apron ---
  • sketch: Chefoo - Temple Hill
  • sketch: Chefoo School War Diary
  • sketch: Civil Assembly Centre Chefoo
  • Map of Temple Hill - Yantai.
  • sketch: Thirty six of the Chefoo Girls' School slept on matresses
  • INTERNMENT OF AMERICANS AND ALLIED NATIONALS AT CHEFOO, CHINA, IN TEMPLE HILL COMPOUNDS
  • signatures: Christmas 1942
  • Biography of Wiley B. Glass, Missionary to China, By: Eloise Glass Cauthen.
  • 50 Years Back
  • photo: Company Accountant, October 1995
  • A CHURCH MINISTER ACCOUNTS FOR HALF A CENTURY
  • document: A pass issued by the Japanese
  • Sketch: The front gate of Weifang camp, through which hundreds of prisoners rushed to welcome their liberators
  • 50 Years Ago, Journey To Freedom
  • document: The welcome news from the sky
  • photo: Mary Previte holds part of a yellow silk parachute
  • She tracked down WWII liberators to say thanks, By Karen D. Brown
  • 50th Anniversary of V-J Day, Thank You, America, By Dr. David J. Michell
  • Return visit in 1995
  • THE HOSTS, THE GUESTS ---
  • LIBERATION BANQUET MENU
  • Speech by Mrs. Estelle Cowley (nee Cliff) at Memorial Ceremony, Weifang, 17 August 1995
  • Song sung by Mr. Ronald Cowley at Memorial Ceremony, Weifang, 17 August 1995
  • Speech by Madam Wang Xioujuan at Liberation Banquet, Weifang, 17 August 1995
  • Speech by Mr. Theodore Bazire at Liberation Banquet, Weifang, 17 August 1995
  • Speech by Dr. Neil Yorkston at Liberation Banquet, Weifang, 17 August 1995
  • TOGETHER AGAIN
  • Guests of His Imperial Majesty
  • Some of the 360 wartime prisoners of the Japanese who celebrated at a reunion in Weybridge, Surrey
  • The Notice Board
  • The Medical Regulation Re Roll Call
  • The bell which called the internees to Rollcall twice a day
  • Norman Cliff's Badge
  • The Check List
  • Rollcall, sketched by Godon Martin
  • Church Services
  • Issues of Coal and Firewood
  • Discipline
  • Talk on St Francis
  • Youth Debate
  • Exchange of Ideas
  • Camp Elections
  • Inventory of ---
  • Working Hours
  • Broadcast News 20 August, 1945
  • Post Office
  • Change of Accomodation
  • Softball Team. The Kitchen 1 players ---
  • People
  • groups,
  • Cubs and Scouts,
  • Guides and Scouts,
  • The Salvation Army Band,
  • The Salvation Army Band,
  • A group of young men
  • Boy Scouts,
  • Girl Guides,
  • Girl Guides
  • Cubs and Brownies,
  • Guides & Scouts,
  • Scouts,
  • Rover Scouts,
  • Guides, + Links to details ---
  • Aviator, US Military, Chinese Guerilla and a civilian ---
  • The Thompson Family,
  • letter: Brian Thompson’s death, 29th Oct. 1944.
  • REPORT ON THE ACCIDENT, WHICH RESULTED IN THE DEATH OF FRANCIS BRIAN THOMPSON AUGUST 16th, 1944.
  • LINK: to Christine Sancton's photos ---
  • Individuals,
  • John David Hayes (23/0/1888 - 4/3/1957)
  • Dr. John D. Hayes with his mother
  • Dr. John D. Hayes with his mother
  • Eric Liddell
  • slide SHOW
  • Introduction portrait
  • Beautiful hymn that soothed Liddell's pain
  • Dedication of Eric Liddell's Memorial Stone at Weifang, China, June 9, 1991
  • The Eric Liddell Monument, by Norman Cliff
  • What Characterizes the Spirit of Eric Liddell, by David Michell
  • Conclusion
  • Significant dates in Eric Liddell's Life
  • Bibliography
  • picture-1: Middle School students - Weifang
  • picture-2: Middle School students - Weifang
  • picture-3: June 9, 1991, David Michell addressing the audience
  • Chefoo and Weihsien (Weifang) revisited, by David Michell
  • picture-4: David Michell addressing the audience
  • picture-5: The audience
  • picture-6: Norman Cliff addressing the audience
  • The Eric Liddell Monument, by Norman Cliff
  • Eric Liddell in Weihsien Camp, by Norman Cliff
  • picture-7: David Michell. Transcription of the monument's text.
  • picture-8: Eric Liddell's grave, as it was in 1945
  • Map of the graveyard (1945) + ZOOM
  • Chinese Grave's Secret: A Famed Runner Rests Here, by Barbara Basler
  • Topica messages
  • picture-9: Eric Liddell's grave in 1991
  • picture-10: Eric Liddell's portrait by Eileen Soper
  • In the Picture, by Andrew Graham-Dixon
  • picture-11: PureGold, foreword by James Taylor III
  • LINK: The Eric Liddell Centre
  • --- more about Eric ---
  • Easter Sunrise
  • Missionaries Share recollections
    of Eric Liddell
  • E-Bao Monthly (in Chinese)
  • Eric a song of salvation ---
  • Eric Liddell 2005:
  • Emily Bryant
  • Japanese camp was a matter of survival for 10-year-old girl, by GENE SMITH, May 6, 1995
  • Sandra Small née Roche
  • LINK: Smithsonian Institution.
  • photo: Astor House Hotel
  • text: Susan Strange is preparing a World War II display in the Smithsonian
  • Father Emmanuel Hanquet
  • "Bonne Chasse", par l'Abbé Palmers ---
  • photo: Nos abbés au camp de concentration de Weihsien en Chine
  • painting: Weihsien, May '1945 Block-56, The Priest's Shack
  • M. l'abbé Michel Keymolen nous écrit: Peking, le 8 novembre 1945.
  • David Michell
  • photo: Chefoo group arriving in Tsingtao after release from camp.
  • SETTING HIS CAPTORS FREE, by ERIC E. WIGGIN
  • photo: We invested our lives in Japanese youth
  • The dramatic World War II rescue of Weihsien prison camp
  • LIKE SAVIORS FROM ANOTHER WORLD, By David Michell
  • David Michell writes, 40 years later ---
  • A boy’s war: the story of a PoW, by DAVID J. MICHELL
  • Father Raymond deJaegher
  • A Catholic Missionary In China and Vietnam'
  • CONCENTRATION CAMP-WEIHSIEN(1943-45)
  • Estelle Cliff's badge
  • A Chefoo group - 1945
  • Dorothy Selmes and son Hugh
  • 'WE ARE LUCKY TO BE ALIVE'
  • Norman Cliff
  • Norman's Pass
  • Norman's Pass
  • Father Rutherford
  • Who was Born in Weihsien?
  • link to: MaryLou Pander
  • link to: Sandra Roche
  • Who Died?
  • The Graveyard Map
  • link to: Mr. Hayes
  • link to: Eric Liddell
  • The Camp Committee ---
  • doc: general elections
  • sketch: M.C. Halton
  • sketch: Mr W. Pryor
  • sketch: Mr J.C. Stewart
  • doc: TED McLAREN (1902-1950)
  • Eric Liddell
  • slide SHOW
  • Introduction portrait
  • Beautiful hymn that soothed Liddell's pain
  • Dedication of Eric Liddell's Memorial Stone at Weifang, China, June 9, 1991
  • The Eric Liddell Monument, by Norman Cliff
  • What Characterizes the Spirit of Eric Liddell, by David Michell
  • Conclusion
  • Significant dates in Eric Liddell's Life
  • Bibliography
  • picture-1: Middle School students - Weifang
  • picture-2: Middle School students - Weifang
  • picture-3: June 9, 1991, David Michell addressing the audience
  • Chefoo and Weihsien (Weifang) revisited, by David Michell
  • picture-4: David Michell addressing the audience
  • picture-5: The audience
  • picture-6: Norman Cliff addressing the audience
  • The Eric Liddell Monument, by Norman Cliff
  • Eric Liddell in Weihsien Camp, by Norman Cliff
  • picture-7: David Michell. Transcription of the monument's text.
  • picture-8: Eric Liddell's grave, as it was in 1945
  • Map of the graveyard (1945) + ZOOM
  • Chinese Grave's Secret: A Famed Runner Rests Here, by Barbara Basler
  • Topica messages
  • picture-9: Eric Liddell's grave in 1991
  • picture-10: Eric Liddell's portrait by Eileen Soper
  • In the Picture, by Andrew Graham-Dixon
  • picture-11: PureGold, foreword by James Taylor III
  • LINK: The Eric Liddell Centre
  • --- more about Eric ---
  • Easter Sunrise
  • Missionaries Share recollections
    of Eric Liddell
  • E-Bao Monthly (in Chinese)
  • Eric a song of salvation ---
  • Eric Liddell 2005:
  • The RED CROSS
  • link: more Red Cross messages
  • doc 1
  • doc 2
  • doc 3
  • message January 25, 1944
  • message February 24, 1944
  • message February 24, 1944
  • message February 24, 1944
  • reply, September 14, 1944
  • message March 24, 1944
  • message April 25, 1944
  • message July 21, 1944
  • message July 25, 1944
  • message February 24, 1945
  • message March 25, 1944
  • telegram, 1945
  • Comfort Money from the Swiss Red Cross
  • Corned Beef Sticker
  • Ensign Seedless Raisins
  • Diary extracts ---
  • postcard written in 1942 from Howard Cliff
  • Children Interned by Japanese
  • Return To Parents
  • DIARY kept by Evelyn Davey (Huebener)
  • Shanghai, January 21st 1943, Dear Friend,
  • Copy of a letter received from Chefoo through Swiss parents
  • Dear Parents of Boys and Girls at Chefoo
  • November ?
  • Dear Chefoo parents & friends (*.pdf)
  • My dear Prayer-Partners, by A. HALLAM HOWIE
  • "THE RED CROSS PARCEL" by Mrs. Grace Harris
  • "THE BELL INCIDENT" 5th May, 1945
  • "THE ASSEMBLY HALL", by Lucius C. Porter
  • "A FEW SNAPSHOTS OF WEIHSIEN" by Norah M. Bushby
  • "IMPRESSIONS OF WEIHSIEN" by C.E. BUSBY
  • "FATHER SCANLAN" by Ethel Chrchill
  • "WEIHSIEN BRAVERY" by Rev. M.Wesley Earl
  • "HIGHLIGHT IMPRESSIONS " by George R. Loebs
  • "AN EXPERIMENT IN CHRISTIAN UNITY" by Harold Thomas Cook
  • « Enemy Aliens » An Appreciation, by G. W. Chilton
  • Whitting's war, BAT man's North China internment and final liberation
  • prisonners made their own entertainment
  • Whitting's WAR
  • M. l'abbé Michel Keymolen nous écrit
  • Looking back on Weihsien, by Gordon Martin
  • "THE TEST OF INTERNMENT", By Stanley Houghton
  • Weihsien Camp Internees Saw No Jap Atrocities, by Lt. Edward Kuhn, Jr.
  • "First Impressions of Weihsien or Wayseen, 1943"
  • "Higher Ground", Biography of Wiley B. Glass, Missionary to China. By: Eloise Glass Cauthen.
  • TheCall (extract) by John HERSEY
  • ----- about John Hersey ---
  • "CHINA BORN" by Mrs. Gladys McMullen-Murray
  • White Wolves in China (extract) by James H. Pyke
  • FORTY YEARS AGO IN A JAPANESE CAMP... by Norman Cliff
  • Bali, who sustained three severe beatings at the hands of the Japanese, by Mrs. Armen Baliantz
  • At last US soldiers came, I thought I was in heaven, by Paul Kelly
  • about THE ESCAPE ---
  • Letter to Weihsien Camp from Commander Wang Shang chih dated 4 May, 1944
  • A DRAMATIC ESCAPE FROM THE CAMP - AND IT'S CONSEQUENCES WITH THE ALLIED VICTORY COMING –
  • letter from Wang Yu Ming dated 7 June, 1944, two days before their escape
  • THE ACTUAL ESCAPE ON 9 JUNE, 1944 and PREPARATIONS FOR THE END...
  • Sunchen Headquarters, No 6 Area, Changyi Area, 3rd May, 1944.
  • Beleagured British and Americans
  • Letter to Weihsien Camp from Commander Wang Shang chih dated 4 May, 1944
  • To all American & British, and other Friends –Lotaoyuan, Weihsien (31/05/1944)
  • LETTER FROM CAMP COMMITTEE TO WANG SHAO WEN, June 3, 1944
  • LETTER FROM JOHN M. BIRCH TO HUMMEL AND TIPTON -14 July, 1945
  • LETTER FROM HUMMEL & TIPTON TO A CHINESE BUSINESS MAN, July 22nd, 1945
  • LETTER FROM TIPTON & HUMMEL TO WEIHSIEN CAMP COMMITTEE, 12 August, 1945
  • LETTER FROM ROY TCHOO TO TIPTON AND HUMMEL, 1.30 p.m. August 17, 1945
  • Leaflets dropped by the U.S. Air Force on Camps in China
  • the Japanese Government has surrendered
  • confidential messages
  • inward messages,
  • outward messages,
  • June 7, 1944,
  • August 16, 1945
  • August 16, 1945 and July 14, 1945
  • S.W.WANG,
  • May 3, 1944
  • June 3, 1944
  • July 22, 1945
  • in Chinese, on silk,
  • Beleagured British and Americans,
  • August 12, 1945
  • Code used by Tipton and Hummel
  • The Liberation Day ---
  • "TheCrowd", liberation day, August 17,1945
  • Who's who,
  • photo: Jim Moore, Tad Nagaki, Stanley Staiger and Ray Hanchulak in Tsingtao, China, 1945.
  • photo: Sgt. Tad Nagaki, Capt. Ogabi and Ensign Jim Moore,
  • photo: Ray Hanchulak and Tad Nagaki in Tsingtao, 1945.
  • photo: Lt. James J. Hannon
  • photo: Peter Orlich
  • photo: Sgt. Tad Nagaki Tsinan, China
  • doc: Leaflets dropped by the U.S. Air Force
  • doc: Chronological Report on Duck Mission
  • Thanks from the Committee, September 4th 1945.
  • From the Committee to Major S. A. Staiger
  • From Major S. A. Staiger to the Committee
  • complementary info: Capt. Willis Georgia
  • Addressed to all Japanese Commanders and Officers,
  • photo 1:
  • photo 2:
  • photo 3:
  • photo 4:
  • photo 5:
  • --- epilogue ---
  • THE END OF THE WAR AT LAST
  • Lt. Col. H. Weinberg and American officers with Weihsien Camp Committee
  • Chinese military officials with Weihsien Camp Committee
  • MEMORANDUM RE CONDITIONS IN NORTH CHINA AS AT 29TH OCTOBER 1945.
  • Back Home
  • Return To Parents, Children Interned By Japanese
  • photo:
  • Norman Cliff and a Japanese Guard
  • Donovan of OSS by Corey Ford (Robert Hale, 1941) : Book 3 1941 – 45
  • John Birch and I,
  • TRIP TO CHEFOO, 1946, By V.R. Crosby
  • Their Internment Camp Made Charming Children
  • photo:
  • Short Stories
  • Looking back on Weihsien, By GORDON MARTIN
  • Weihsien Camp Internees Saw No Jap Atrocities, By Lt. Edward Kuhn, Jr.
  • Story behind "Seeing Marina again".
  • Meet with Malyna (?) Again
  • SEEING MARINA AGAIN, by Ju Zaoji
  • Echoes from Japan ---
  • The Tokyo Shimbun August 19, 1995
  • A chance meeting with a gentleman
  • There is a Chinese Heart in London
  • The faces of the people who worked in the Taiwan copper mines reflected the shadow of death. Jack Edwards (Ex-British army)
  • A room full of rats running around
  • Towards understanding the lack of human rights
  • Norman Cliff takes us on....A journey to Reconciliation
  • Once in a lifetime --- (50 years after 1945)
  • SURREY, ENGLAND
  • WEIHSIEN group, 1988 ---
  • two first rows
  • third row
  • back row
  • The PROGRAMME, "Once in a Lifetime", 1988
  • GUESTS
  • ASH CAMP
  • CHAPEI CAMP
  • LINCOLN AVENUE
  • LUNGHWA
  • POOTUNG
  • REPATRIATES
  • SANTO TOMAS
  • TIENTSIN
  • WEIHSIEN
  • YANGCHOW 'C'
  • YANGTSZEPOO
  • TORONTO, CANADA
  • From: Mary Taylor Previte
  • ONCE-IN-A A-LIFETIME CHINA CAMPS REUNION: OCT 21-24, 1988, By Jim BRUCE
  • --- a letter from Father Scalan,
  • recto ---
    
  • Organization
  • letter from Laurie Tipton,
  • the program, page 1
  • the program, page 2
  • The menu
  • Toronto,
  • Songs & Poems ---
  • To the tune of the British Grenadiers
  • Poem written on the arrival of the Chefoo group in Weihsien
  • The Weihsien Chorus, Tune Solomon Levi
  • Song written in a Shanghai camp when the war was ending. Tune: 0 bring back my bonnie to me.
  • Cub Scout song, Tune "Till we meet again".
  • Song from another camp adapted to Weihsien -
  • song: BUSINESS AS USUAL
  • Books ---
  • Bibliography on Weihsien
  • COURTYARD OF THE HAPPY WAY
  • Foreword by Leslie T. Lyall
  • Preface
  • VI---- The Old Order Changeth
  • VII--- Weihsien the Test
  • VIII-- Bound Together by Fate
  • IX---- Eight Feet of Space
  • X----- Sail On and On
  • XI ----Set Up in Hope or Plunged in Fear
  • XII--- Hour of Gentle Joy
  • XIII-- Like Them that Dream
  • I ----- Japanese Imperial War Rescript
  • II ---Translation of leaflet dropped by Japanese planes in February 1938
  • III- Instructions given by the Japanese to British and Americans on going into Civil Assembly Centres
  • IV --Leaflet dropped in August 1945 by American planes
  • V----Notice to allied prisoners of war and civilian internees
  • VI --Japanese raid leader is now a Presbyterian minister
  • map ---
  • to order the book: ---
  • PRISONERS OF THE SAMURAI
  • ABOUT THE BOOK
  • FOREWORD
  • CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • to order the book: ---
  • CHAPTER 7 An Overview of the Camps ---
  • CHAPTER 9 Escapes from the Camps ---
  • COURTYARD OF THE HAPPY WAY CAMP
  • in Chinese, *.pdf-file (4.7Mo)
• Sandra Small, née Roche
  • link: Astor House Hotel.
  • link: Baby Bonnet
  • link: Smithsonian Institution
  • about the exposition
• Stan & Paul Thompson
  • Brian and his mother in 1941
  • Paul and Stanley today.
  • Mr. and Mrs. R.E. Thompson and their family
  • REPORT ON THE ACCIDENT, WHICH RESULTED IN THE DEATH OF FRANCIS BRIAN THOMPSON AUGUST 16th, 1944.
  • letter:Brian Thompson’s death, 29th Oct. 1944.
  • One of the leaflets that astonished us all ---
  • a little silk handkerchief printed with a grapevine pattern ---
    
• James H. Taylor.
  • Dear Chefoo & Weihsien friends and colleagues;
  • Pure Gold: A New Biography Of The Olympic Champion Who Inspired Chariots Of Fire
  • photos: 60th anniversary of our liberation
    --- click on the picture to see the next one ---
  • Beyond the Chariots of Fire
  • go to Broadway ---
  • "The Arena of Eric Liddell" by James Taylor III
  • "Beyond Success" by James Taylor III
• BobMcKnight
  • BIRDS IN THE FOWLER'S NET
    The Story of a Japanese Internment Camp, By J. W. G. Bruce, 1985
  • The Chefoo School emblem
  • photo: PA Bruce's familly
  • photo: PA Bruce's familly
  • photo: PA Bruce's familly
  • photo: Stewart and Jean

• Ted Pearson
  • Ted Pearson's "I-Remembers"
  • the map of Weihsien
    --- click on the red dots ---
  • The paintings' collection
  • sketch: a Japanese guard on duty
  • painting: block-32 --- "the block in which we lived"
  • sketch: block-32 --- "the block in which we lived" ...
  • painting: Mickey and Ted ...
  • painting: Walvis Way - Weihsien 1944 -
  • painting: Block-23
  • painting: the Elephant Shop
  • painting: By Esher May Sworder - 1944 -
  • painting: Moongate and Headquarters
  • painting: Shoeshop
  • sketch: Museum of relics ---
  • sketch: Block-56, "the Priest's shack" ---
  • painting: Out of bounds ---
  • localisation --- map ---
  • The 60th anniversary photos
• Stanley Fairchild
  • William A. Smith Biography
  • William A. Smith's article in "Asia and the Americas" magazine July, 1946
  • sketch: the bakery
  • sketch: the cook,
  • sketch: Eurasian boy,
  • sketch: the sergeant,
  • sketch: taipan,
  • sketch: Water queue,
  • sketch: Japanese guard on duty ---
    
• Brian Butcher
  • Visit to Weifang, November 2007
  • my parents,
  • sketch: a gate ---
  • sketch: a gate ---
  • sketch: the moongate ---
  • sketch: a street ---
  • Rev. Butcher's badge
  • Brian's badge
  • MEMORIES OF INTERNMENT AT WEIHSEIN, By Brian Butcher
  • Red Cross messages,
  • to Mr. Mrs. A. KOK, 31/7/1944
  • to Mr. David Landin, 29/01/1945
  • to Laura Reynolds, 19/04/1943
  • to Lillian Butcher, 24/07/1943
  • to Signe&Ruthe Pedersen, 10/10/1944
  • to Willy Rudolph, 28/08/1944
  • to Laura Reynolds, 4/01/1943
  • to Mr.&Mrs. Solvoll, 30/10/1944
  • to George Tilling, 4/01/1943
  • photo: liberation --- at last --- August 1945
  • photo: liberation --- at last --- August 1945
  • photo: departure from Weihsien ---
  • photo: arrival at Tsingtao ---
  • photo: Guard of Honour ---
  • photo: Aboard the Man of War ---
  • photo: Tsingtao Army Band
  • painting: a Street in Weihsien CAC ---
• Gladys Swift
  • photo: Hugh Hubbard
  • photo: Hugh Hubbard
  • documents
  • THE OBERLIN TIMES Hugh Hubbard Writes Of Chinese Conditions
  • Regarding Hugh Hubbard, let me refer to a book ---, by Norman Cliff.
• Gordon Helsby
  • The Book: "He Goes Before Them - Even Into Prison"
  • The Book: Table of contents,
  • back-cover: August 1945
  • photo: Wedding-day, Dec.23, 1939
  • photo: Sandra Kay
  • sketch: Camp Map
  • sketch: Rooms 9x12foot
  • sketch: Kitchen 1
  • photo: Compound Wall
  • document: Chinese bill
  • document: Comfort Money
  • newspaper article: The Peking Chronicle
  • newspaper article: Gripsholm sails
  • photo: Sandra
  • photo: Block 23 and B-29
  • leaflet: to Allied Prisoners
  • leaflet: Attention Allied Prisoners
  • a telegram from Western Union
  • newspaper article: Thursday August 30, 1945
  • photo: Peking, 1945
  • photo: John Hayes, 1945
  • photo: Helsbys, 1947
  • photo: Helsbys, 1961
  • Photo: "retired"
• Greg Leck
  • Captives of Empire
  • Paintings & Sketches
  • Can U help identifying these people
  • Who's Who ?
  • Passengers of a C-47
  • portraits
  • Who's Who ?
• Peter Bazire
  • Paintings & Sketches
  • photo: The Weihsien Salvation Army Band
  • photo: The Weihsien Salvation Army Band
  • photo: Peter Bazire in 2006 (Bath Spa Band Uniform)
  • Peter's Weihsien diary
  • Peter's First Class Scout Journey
  • I remember
  • Painings & Sketches by Mrs. Eilee Bazire
  • painting: --- the chinese market outside the camp ---
  • painting: Paintings of the countryside from the train ---
  • painting: Paintings of the countryside from the train ---
  • painting: --- the Edgeware Mansions Hotel.
  • painting: Tsingtao: Nearby Coast.
• Famille de Saint Hubert
  • Paintings & Sketches
  • By Jacqueline de Saint Hubert
  • sketch: Block-58, just against the Northern Boudary Wall with electrified wires ---
  • sketch: Block-16, Tin Pan Alley looking SSW ---
  • sketch: 1943 - Block-23 and Assembly Hall ---
  • painting: The Dramatic Club --- poster ---
  • map: Map of Weihsien by Christian de Saint Hubert
  • Opera --- poster ---
  • sketch: Guard tower with search light
  • postcard: Christmas card - 1943
  • Documents
  • Attention to all Allied Prisoners ---
  • A4-leaflet: Attention to all Allied Prisoners ---
  • A4-leaflet: Geallieerde Gevangenen (in Dutch)
  • The Weihsien Concentration Camp's Map ---
  • Photos
  • a B-29 over Block-23 ---
  • Christian de Saint Hubert and Alfred Deggs after liberation by the Americans ---
  • Warship International Magazine
• Pamela Masters
  • Paintings & Sketches
  • The Mushroom Years
  • Weihsien Photos
  • Leo (?) with a heart of gold ---
  • Mr. and Mrs. Dean, missionaries
  • Dickie or "Dixie" Cameron ---
  • Father de Jaegher, an American pilot and a Chinese soldier ---
  • food distribution ---
  • food distribution after liberation --- (zoom)
  • (Lower right), Mary Shaw and ??? ---
  • Outside the Camp on Liberation Day ---
  • Outside the Camp on Liberation Day ---
  • Outside the camp on Liberation Day --- (zoom)
  • A l ittle Italian girl taken outside the camp on Liberation Day
• Terri Stewart
  • Documents
  • letter by Alice Moore
  • letter by Ruth H. Kunkel
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