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continually under review to enable such persons to return
immediately Government consider that their absence from the Colony
is no longer to be recommended and will be granted the same
facilities and financial assistance to return.
Your Petitioners and those whom they represent fully recognise
that if evacuates or other female relatives are allowed to return
immediately, they do so at their own risk and cannot expect again
to be evacuated at Government's expense.
as loyal citizens
Your Petitioners are fully aware of the gravity of the political situation and the necessity of urging people to evacuate Nevertheless they have duly weighed the consequences of the
present compulsory Order and are convinced that the confidence of
the Colony will only be restored by a scheme which is both
equitable and voluntary
B.
Your Petitioners therefore humbly
pray that Your Excellency may see fit
to forward the above Petition to the
Right Honourable the Secretary of
State by cable, with the request that
the Right Honourable the Secretary of
State may accede to your Petitioners'
prayer
And your Petitioners will ever prayetc.
Dated the 21st, day of November, 1940.
M.. Wilson Sha. I.
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