In March 1943, a missionary family, R.W. and M.F. Howes, along with their two girls, were interned in Chapei—the Japanese official name was Chapei Civil Assembly Center. Most of the people were Canadian or American, with some central European citizens. And later some British citizens were added from a camp further west up the Yangtze which the Japanese closed. The first paragraphs about Anna Wallis Suh in this whole Wikipedia article said that records from the Chapei camp reported Anna Suh as being released for repatriation. She may have been released, but she was not repatriated. The Americans and Canadians who were repatriated left Shanghai in September 1943 on the Japanese ship Teia Maru, which traveled to Goa, India, and were exchanged for Japanese from America which had traveled on the Swedish ship The Griipsholm. But Mrs. Suh was not repatriated. Perhaps that was the cover story of her release from Chapei. In December 1943, I (the older Howes daughter) and Mrs. Suh were in the same ward in the Shanghai General Hospital, originally a Catholic hospital, but during the war under Japanese control though still staffed by Catholic sisters. I do not know what Mrs. Suh was in the hospital for. I assumed, as a twelve-year-old, she was living there because, as she told me, her husband was a Korean working for the Japanese Shanghai government. I had been allowed to be taken from our camp infirmary to the hospital because I had been fighting a colon blockage for three days which finally turned into appendicitis. I was operated on by a Japanese doctor, with the assistance of a Czech doctor. Mrs Suh was still there when I left after a month to return to Chapei.
