. The toilets never flushed since there was a limited water supply. Empty cans were used to flush the toilets because the cesspools were always clogged. The Japanese supplied no toilet paper, causing contamination, disease, and a bad stench.
There were barely any full-sized bathrooms. There were four bathing areas that had a scarce source of water. Most of the internees used buckets to wash themselves and to keep themselves clean. One shower for the men and one shower for the women were open, each with many shower heads. Also, there was a limited amount of water in the showers. Because of this, women were allowed to shower only three times a week, though men were allowed to shower daily. For laundry, there were basins and pails in the hospital basement and some other buildings.
Food and dining areas
There were three dining areas that had kitchens. At first, there were twelve refrigerators, but they were eventually taken by the Japanese for their personal use. Internees were sent meat from an army slaughterhouse; it was brought through the compound by train. This meat was unrefrigerated and many times kept uncovered. The only equipment left over or given to the internees was two large frying pans, two copper pots, some tin pails, a dozen knives and a couple of bowls. Most of the other remaining kitchen equipment was items that the internees were allowed to bring with them into the camp.
Chinese farmers who lived outside the compound risked their lives to smuggle food over the walls to the prisoners. The Chinese farmers also smuggled news and messages into the camp for the internees to know what was going on outside the camp. At one point, Chinese Nationalist Party guerrillas even helped two internee men, Arthur Hummel, Jr., and Laurance Tipton, escape from the camp. These escapees lived with the guerrillas until the end of the war.
On August 17, 1945, two days after the official Japanese surrender to the Allies, a small rescue team parachuted from an American B24 Bomber. The team included six Americans (Major Stanley Staiger, Ensign Jimmy Moore, Lt. Jim Hannon, Ramond Hanchulak, Sgt. Peter Orlich, Sgt. Tad Nagaki) and one Chinese interpreter ("Eddie" Wang Chenghan 王成汉). The operation, named the "Duck Mission", successfully liberated 1,400 Allied civilian prisoners.
- Reginald Bazire, Anglican Priest and Missionary
- Langdon Brown Gilkey, American Protestant Ecumenical theologian
- Watson McMillan Hayes, helped to set up Shandong College/Shandong University
- Arthur W. Hummel, Jr., later American Ambassador to China (1981–85)
- Eric Liddell, Scottish athlete, Olympic gold and bronze-medal winner (1924), rugby union international player, and missionary. Died at the compound 21 February 1945 (aged 43). The film The Last Race (On Wings of Eagles- 2017) depicts Liddell's time at the camp, with Joseph Fiennes as Eric Liddell.
- Lope "Papa" Sarreal, Sr., The "Grand Old Man of Philippine Boxing"
- Paul Thompson, British Sinologist
- Mary C. Wright and Arthur F. Wright, historians of China; Professors at Yale University; Mary was the first tenured woman professor in the School of Arts and Sciences at Yale University
- E. T. C. Werner, British Consul and Sinologist
- Walter Wiley Davis, Educator/Yenching Geology faculty/Methodist Missionary
- Alice F. Moore, Principal, Peking American School
- Joseph Cotterill, Priest
- Alfred Jennings, Missionary (CIM)
- May Palmer Jennings, Missionary (CIM)
- Jessie Jennings, Missionary (CIM)
- Mary Previte, American Democratic Party politician who served in the New Jersey General Assembly, where she represented the 6th legislative district from 1998 to 2006.
- Michael Boycott, Secretary of the Hong Kong Jockey Club and amateur jockey
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