[PW] 1922(?) Bombing in Hong Kong
JT Thompson
jtthompson at eircom.net
Mon Mar 17 11:48:28 PDT 2008
> It appears at best that the
>patron's father might have conflated events occurring in India and
>Hong Kong, and at worst that if he actually was delayed a year in Hong
>Kong, the more likely cause was immigration quotas. Apparently he
>told his children the stories some 30-40 years later, so it is not
>difficult to imagine he didn't remember everything exactly.
Or more likely, from my own experience, that he told his children or
grandchildren the stories with exact recollection, and the children
and grandchildren said "Yeah, yeah, Da", and half-forgot what he
said, until later when they needed to know and half-rememebered.
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