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British Consulate-General,
MANILA.
April 17th, 1941.
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sir,
I have the honour under instructions from His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to request that Your Excellency will be so good as to convey to the Philippine Red Cross an expression of the most sincere appreciation of His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom for the facilities so generously afforded last summer for the evacuation of British women and children from Hong Kong to the Philippine Islands. His Majesty's Government are deeply grateful for all the assistance which was given in this connection by the Philippine Red Cross and their gratitude is shared by all those British subjects for whom so much was done.
I should be grateful if this expression of the gratitude of His Majesty's Government could be conveyed to all those members of the Philippine Red Cross who were concerned, and in particular to Mr. Charles Hancock Forster, Mrs. Madelyn Isla Bell, Mrs. Gladys Bowman Forster, Mrs. Frances Erikson Hobbs, Mrs. Jean Jarrett, Mrs. Lucy Parten Myers, Mrs. Edith Baldwin Stewart, Mrs. Marie Melzer Willimont and Mrs. Catherine Fairman.
I have, etc.,
(Signed)
Consul-General.
His Excellency
Francia B. Sayre,
United States High Commissioner to the Philippines,
MANILA.