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Reference No... M681/15.
With the compliments of the
Under Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs
Dominions Office,
2 Park Street,
W!
Date......7/10..........
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LONG DISTRIBUTION
From the United Kingdom High Commissioner in the
COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA
TO DOLINIGNS OFFICE
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D. 24th October, 1941, R. 24th
7.00 p.m.
11.15 p.nl.
Ilo. 36.
Addressed to the Governor of Hongkong Repeated to Secretary of State for
Dominion Affairs No. 422.
Your telegram of 11th December 1940.
I have received appeal from Hongkong evacuce, Lirs, Helen E. Brooks asking for permission to return to home in Hongkong on grounds of (a) effect on her health (b) illness of hushand tho has sustained injury in the course of employment (c) financial strain of maintaining separate homes. I should be glad to know what reply should be returned.