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give instructions to the authorities in the Hong- kong Colony to permit all women and children to
remain in the country in case they choose not to
follow their husbands and fathers into the concen-
tration camp of their own free will, or unless in
individual cases perhaps particular reasons would
justify their expulsion from the Colony.
The Foreign Office will be grateful for a communication stating the result of the steps
kindly undertaken by the Embassy of the United
States of America.
Berlin, April 22nd, 1915.
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