Dear Mr. Chirgwin,
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Colonial office,
Downing Street,
S.W. 1.
9th July, 1940.
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I am sorry that I have not been able to let you have an earlier reply about the case of kiss Brameld and Miss Rawlings which you mentioned to me the other day, but the reference of your representations to higher authority took longer than I anticipated.
We have considered the matter further, but, while we appreciate the force of the arguments which you put to me regarding the value which these ladies might be in an emergency in Hong Kong, we feel that these considerations cannot have ben absent from the mind of the local authorities when they rejected the appeal against evacuation, and conse- quently we do not feel that this is a matter in which we on this side can properly intervene.
The Rev.
A. M. Chirgwin.
Yours sincerely,