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Lucas
Colonial Office
London
431
To our amazement just received cable from Hong Kong stating Author- ities insist crew returning Inkum Our arrangement with Board of Trade
covered our legal responsibility regarding expenses at Hong Kong and sending home as distressed seamen Kindly oblige us by cabling at once to Authorities to carry out arrangement for men to be sent home as dis-
tressed seamen as arranged without further trouble
Welsford