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Carlos Henrique de Senna Fernandes de Castro Basto#2960

Birth: 27 March 1890, Sé, Macau
Marriage: Ellen Mary Cooper no children
Death: 1 September 1942, Hong Kong, When the Japanese invaded Hong Kong in 1941 the Club Lusitano was turned into a defence centre by the Hong Kong Volunteers. The Japanese were very suspicious of the club’s activities and periodically made surprise visits and took members away for interrogation and imprisonment. On one such visit the then President, Henry Basto, and some friends were whiling away idle time by working out theoretical games of bridge. The Japanese commander saw the notes of the bridge hands and was convinced they were secret code. Henry Basto was tried for espionage, imprisoned and later beheaded.
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