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From Mr.
Cancelled.
Dr Gordon Thompson, the trecutive
of
Ashley Clarke Secretary If the British Fund for the
Relief of Distress in China, recently called on Steindale Bennett and said that his organization understood that Mrs Selwyn Ci se
se, who
ر
is their representative in Hong Kong, was being obliged to leave them the Colony as part of the evacuation scheme. Mrs Selwyn
he added Clarke was
wastan
extremes active representative, and her departure would be a real loss.
It
I war pointed out to Bxfordon bhompson that we felt some
Выстрота difficulty in pressing the cart.
We realize that the Honglong Goot have recently recommended that the operation of the evacuation scheme should be tightened up
of this Selwyn Clarke is exempted and that some of those who have
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