A man has been fined and banned from an Australian airline in a Brisbane court after he spent a long haul flight abusing other passengers and staff after another passenger refused to drink with him.
“When the Japanese took over in Hong Hong he ended up in a camp.” Begg has all the letters Fowler wrote home to his mother and family members, several from Stanley civilian internment camp established for nearly 3000 men, women and children after the Japanese invaded Hong Kong in 1942. On September 29, Fowler writes (he doesn’t give the year): “I have put on a bit of weight the last few weeks but am thinner than any of you have ever seen me. There has been a terrible lot of damage here. These years of starvation and cruelty have killed many Chinese and left most of the rest thin and weak.”