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Enclosure in Shanghai P/L Despatch to Foreign Office, No. 113 of 19/4/39.
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No. 174.
British Consulate-General,
SHANGH LI,
189
19th April 1939.
Copies to: Foreig Office, No. 113, (3),
Tokyo, No. 61,
Commander-in-Chief,
Officer Commanding Shanghai Area.
Sir,
Fith reference to my despatch No. 351 of August 29th, 1938, on the subject of the removal of the Chinese soldiers formerly undergoing treatment in the Church Missionary Society's hospital at Hangchow, I have the honour to place on record the following subsequent developments in this case.
2.
As reported to Your Excellency in my despatch No. 354 of september 1st, the men in question, numbering 106 altogether, were eventually placed in a concentration camp at Hangchow, where permission was accorded for them to be visited each week both by Bishop Curtis and Dr. Sturton, the medical superintendent of the hospital. Five out of the 106 were subsequently returned to the hospital as being in need of treatment. Of the remaining
101, forty-three were released on November 3rd in honour
of the Meiji Emperor's birthday, and were given their liberty, staying in the refugee camp at Hangchow run by the Sino-Japanese Buddhist Association. This left 58 still in the concentration camp and 91 remaining as patients in the hospital.
3.
On November 22nd, the men in the concentration
camp, who by then had increased to 59, were transferred,
His Majesty's Ambassador,
British Embassy,
SHANGHAI.
together/
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