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Mr. F.Hall. 24/7
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Mr. Paskin.
Mr. G. E. J. Gent.
Mr. G. L. M. Clauson.
Mr. C. J. Jeffries.
DRAFT.
C.H.M. Wilcox Esq.
Treasury.
Ende to
Copy/14/53838/59.
FURTHER ACTION.
Copies to Philips Paroad
isteyn Cave (F.0.)
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T/E Dept
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Dear Wilcox,
Form: Pasami Lig
Расмий
Эт
55085/43.
53838/59/43.
Sir A. Dawe
Sir W. Battershill.
Permt. U of S.
Parly. U.S. of S.
Secretary of State,
C. D.
12 AUG
D
13-
14.
8.43
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We would like to put up for your consideration a
difficult position into which we have been projected
by an earlier commitment of the Long Kong Govt.
1. As a result of the extension of the sino-Japanese
war to South China, large numbers of refugees flocked
from the mainland of China into hon, Kong, and this
factor was responsible for an increase in the
number of lepers far beyond the capacity of the
available hospitals in the Colony. The Govt-there-
upon decided to transfer the "non-regisent" Lopers
of Chinese nationality to ertain esylums in China
Proper, which had agreed to accept them, and at pic
same time to guarantee annual grants for their main-
tenance.
200 of these lepers we re accepted in April 1941 by
the Maryknoll Mission, an American Catholic organis-
ation, which has a leper asylum at Ngaimun, at the
entrance to one of the channels of the West River
below hacao and presumably within the area now under
Japanese control, and the h.lg.Govt.agreed to pay
HK$6.00 per head per month for their upkeep. The Embassy at Chanting
payment which has been continued th
their boksas. fummm HK. funds.
The Ambassador at Chungking, however, has now
telegraphed a recommendation, copy of which is
thus
enclosed, that if the H.kg. Govt. has a moral oblig-
ion for the full maintenance of these lepers (nov
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the monthly allowance should be