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4 dir Itafford Cripps
512.39
Encloses of letter of extract from local paper from
a correspondeas in H.K. Requests obsons.
in Cowell
Mr Blaxte
I attach a letter which the Secretary of State
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has received from Sir Stafford Cripps, M. P., enclosing
one which he has received from a correspondent in
Hong Kong. An interim acknowledgment has been sent.
Perhaps you would be good enough to advise the
Secretary of State as to the further reply? UNDER STAT
(gd) b. Creasy
8.2. '39
In Jairworthy
q
There is corresp. on the interment
soldiers. Please
Please annex r
adph
A Plowell
6. Goo.
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conf. (2)
23.1.39
The we Is copies of record of proceedings ar
courts
military
of inquiry which investigated D'incidents I attempted cocapes from
the
camp.
This despatch tells of several attempts to
There escape from the Ma Tau Chung Internment Camp.
have been in all something like twenty-two attempts
to escape, in which one or two of the interned
Chinese soldiers have been fired on by the sentries.
One of these cases has since proved fatal, and the
Governor states that a civil death enquiry into the
is circumstances of his death has to be held by a
magistrate with the assistance of a jury.
But the really major case is the escape
of 109 soldiers by means of a manhole. However, the
manholes