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Nurse Waters Finds Meaning Of FreedomHome after nearly 14. months of internment under the Japanese in the Stanley internment camp lor civilians in Hong | Kong, Nursing Sister Anna May Waters, of Winnipeg, said, ; Monday, that the experience taught her to appreciate freedom .and privacy in a way she had never appreciated them before.For eight months after the Japs captured Hong Kong, Miss Waters and olhcr British and Canadian nurses continued on duty at the British military hospital in Hong Kong. Then, on August 10. 1942, the nurses were moved to internment at Stanley camp—they did not know why.During the time she remained on duty at tho hospital some members of the Winnipeg Grenadiers were admitted to the hospftal. Their spirits were always cn the top,*' she reported. Since then she had had cards from some Of the Winnipeg boys ar.d they always-wrote they were well ar.d in very good spirits. The Grenadiers, however, are confined in a military camp and she didn't know anything of conditions there, she said.Nursing Sister Waters lost about 20 pounds during her internment, but she regained about ID pounds of it on the voyage home.Welcomed Home The train didn't arrive too early Sunday morning for about a hundred of Nurse Anna May Waters’ CRIP5HOLM Continued on Page 3, Column 5As a crowd of about a hundred friends stepped aside to let Nursing Sister Anna May Waters get a word with her lather, Sunday morning, at the station, on her return from internment in Japan, the Free Press camera caught a picture o? them smiling happily. Miss Waters went to the Orient wjth the Winnipeg Grenadiers and the Quebec Rifles, in laic 1941. and was repatriated on the exchange ship Gripsholm.
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Winnipeg Free Press
Winnipeg, Manitoba, CA
Mon, Dec 06, 1943
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