Does Anyone Know Patsy

Lee?

11THEN residents of Singapore were ▼ ▼ evacuated in 1942, a Chinese family, Mr. and Mrs. Lee and their small child, Patsy, became separated and the child was lost. Since liberation in 1945 the mother, Mrs. Ruth Lee, has been searching far and wide for Patsy.

In 1943, an article by Forster Hailey, in the “New York Times,” described how the American Marines in Guadalcanal cared for a little Chinese girl, whose origin and history were unknown. Somehow, she was called “Patsy Lee”; and she was cared for by the chaplain, and by Dr. Jean Pauhquen, at Espiritu Santo, and then was taken by Pere Johan to an orphanage at Vila. She may still be there.

It is possible that the Marines’ “Patsy Lee” is identical with the Patsy Lee lost out of Singapore, and the mother has been seeking information. Anyone who knows anything about the child, last re ported in the New Hebrides, is invited to write to Mr. C. L. Cheng, merchant, Suva, Fiji.