Scope and Contents Documents showing Arthur May’s liaison and cooperation with the Indian troops who ostensibly worked for the Japanese. Based on the intelligence obtained from Indian soldiers, Arthur recommended to Mr Gimson, the then Colonial Secretary in Stanley Internment Camp his plan of actions to overpower the Japanese military (1942-1944);Main News Items secretly typed by Arthur May giving accounts of the progress of the war to prisoners in the military internment camps and other Indian...

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Arthur May’s papers written from memory about his time in HK during the War (written between 1970 and 1992);

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Arthur May’s handwritten notes and comments on published books by others which brought back certain bits of his memories of the war years (possibly in 1972); other materials including a pass issued by the Japanese authority giving Arthur May permission to move around in order to mend the water supply (1941/1942),

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Papers relating to the administration of Ma Tau Chung Internment Camp including notes of Committee meetings, letters, camp food inventory etc. (1944, 1945)

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Post-war statements and testimonials, largely by Arthur May, giving praise to a number of Indian soldiers during Occupation as well as Arthur’s report on certain British nationals whom he considered had been cooperating with the Japanese (1945)

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Post-war statements made by others on Arthur May’s activities and contributions during Occupation and after the War

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Drafts of private letters and notes to Dr Selwyn-Clarke giving Arthur May’s memory of events during the Occupation (written between 1963 and 1975 while Selwyn-Clarke was writing his memoirs, Footprints.

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Post-war newspaper clippings relating to the war and the Occupation kept by Arthur May (1948-2000).