NO CONFIDENTIAL.
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رجمة
17
GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HỒNG KÔNG,
7th June, 1940.
RECEIVED -9 JUL 1940
C. O. REQY
(TE) of a huby
вору
Kuners
My Lord,
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With reference to previous correspondence resting with my confidential despatch of 27th Lay, 1940, regarding Chinese soldiers interned in Hong Kong, I have the honour to inform Your Lordship with regret that one internee named Wong Kwok Sun escaped from the internees' ward at Lai Chi Kok Hospital on 6th May, 1940.
2. This internee had been admitted to the hospital on 27th April, 1940, suffering from a non-specific enteritis. The ward in which he was detained together with nineteen other sick internees was watched by a northern Chinese police constable. The ward has four windows all heavily barred, a wooden door, and an outer mosquito-proof door with a wooden frame. The instruction of the Chinese police constable in charge was that both these doors must be kept locked.
3. At 5.25 a.m. on the morning of 6th May, 1940, the Chinese constable left the ward to obey a call of nature, locking only the outer door. On his return five minutes later he found the netting of the mosquito-proof door broken and one of the internees missing. All police stations were notified of the escape but the missing internee Wong Kwok Sun has not yet been recaptured.
4. The escape was entirely due to the disobedience
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
LORD LLOYD OF DOLOBRAN,
&C.,
&C.,
&c.