Enclosure No.3.
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Extract from "The People's Tribune" (Shanghai).
To Beatrice Thompson, Hong Kong.
You have been getting so much publicity in the London and
China papers lately that I am sure you will have no objection
to receiving a little from me. It seems that "left a widow,
with two children, when only 22 years of age, you set yourself
"the task of carving a career in the Far East" which, I
suppose, is another way of saying "earning a living"
where
!!
your father "a Lancashire man, was a builder of railways,
From the London newspaper publishing these statements I learn
that, you are today "a marketing consultant, and head of one
of the largest businesses of its kind in Hong Kong" - which,
I assume, is another way of saying that you are running what,
in my younger days, used to be called an advertising-agency.
The paper goes on to say that:-
"Noting what strides the American and Japanese Trade
Missions have made in China, Mrs. Thompson felt it was time a
blow was struck in this direction on behalf of Great Britain,
and therefore approached the Hong Kong Government and the
Chinese Chamber of Commerce with the suggestion of the Trade
Fair.
She is travelling round the world interesting the
various countries in the project and already has the support
of New Zealand and Canada.
Slim, dark and good-looking, Mrs. Thompson might be
a woman who has had a life of happy leisure instead of strenuous
business. She has twice been captured by Chinese bandits when
marketing goods in outlying villages.
Perfumery and cosmetics are two main marketing "lines"
- commodities that are now appealing to the villagers as well
as to the wealthy Westernized Chinese women.
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