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The Taikoo dockyard is one of the two principal yards in Hong Kong which builā very considerable ships and are at present full up with work for the Admiralty and Ministry of shipping.
Here is another aspect of the problem created by the evacuation policy, and one which may be said to affect directly the war capacity of Hong Kong. lr. lusson is no doubt right in supposing that H...G. Would not agree, at the present stage of tension with Japan, to allow the return of any British European women and children who chose to do so, and I think it would also be out of the question for the Hong Kong Government or H... G. to enforce the return to Hong Hong of any len who were grunted a holiday to Australia, or wherever their families may be, and especially so if the Australian Government were anxious to retain them in Australia for work there.
At the same time this is possibly the most substantial evidence we have had as to certain harmful effects which the evacuation policy is increasingly causing in Hong Kong, and if the period of tension
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