to remain under house arrest. On May 4, 1942, Dennis was arrested once again and this time imprisoned at Japanese Gendarmerie Headquarters for the next 94 days in solitary confinement. Dennis was accused of espionage and forced to sign a confession – in Japanese - that was never translated to him. Eventually, in early August, the Swiss Consul in Tientsin managed to secure Dennis’s release and repatriation. In a greatly weakened state he was taken to Shanghai and put aboard an overcrowded evacuation ship (the Kamakura Maru) to Lourenço Marques in Portuguese East Africa. From there he was eventually transferred to another ship bound for London. Post-War Life In London Dennis was assigned to work for the Ministry of Food. Dennis was assigned to the United Nations War Crimes Commission International Military Tribunal for the Far East and sent back to Asia to work on the trials of senior Japanese military personnel, a list that included those who had imprisoned him in Tientsin. Dennis returned again to England after the tribunals. He divorced and married a third time, ran a hotel in West London called The Dennis that had an active bridge club, ran several pubs in the area and was regularly to be seen propping up the bar at the Chepstow Arms near Notting Hill Gate. Dick Dennis died in 1972 at seventy five years of age. References 1. North China Herald, 20 January 1937 p99 2. Helen Foster Snow, My China Years, William Morrow & Co., New York, 1984 External links Podcast: In conversation with Diana Dennis Website: dealing with DCI Dennis' most infamous case and with additional pictures of DCI Dennis 1897 births 1972 deaths People from West Ham British colonial police officers Metropolitan Police officers