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the Rosary 111" Home included Dependants of :
Prisoners-of-¡ar
Members of the Hongkong Armed Forces,
killed or missing
Members of the British Merchant Marine d) Members of British Armed Forces fighting
abroad.
I understand that the Rosary 111" Fome is now expected to be wound up at the end of this month. Under the circumstances, I shall endeavour to contact the competent Authorities in Hongkong, with a view to arriving at a suitable settlement on the spot, particularly as I expect to leave Hongkong for Shanghai shout the middle of April,and do not anticipate returning here before the end of the year. I shall
keep you informed of further development.
In addition to what I have written to Lieut. ol. Kay, on 30th Karch 1946, I would mention the following points :-
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The "Rosary #111" premises during the hostilities in Hongkong in December 1941, surved as a ilitary Hospital, and for some time accommodated at least 700 persons, including the large numbers who sheltered there. hen I first inspected the "Rosery Fill" premises, in July or August 1942, the walls of the rooms were alrendy quite dirty, and there was hardly a lavatory in working-order.
Up to the time the "Homo" was handed over to the Briti sh
uthorities, in October 1945, 46 Wash-Besins in the rooms had been broken or badly cracked, but these esh-Basina were of Hongkong manufacture, and extremely frail, their criginal cost was certainly not more than £2.-.- each.
Along the walls of the Dining Room, were heavy wooden benches (fitted into the walls) which the Cuperintenĉont of the Rome (in December 1943) had removed without my prior approval, and converted into tables. The replac cert of these benches is likely to be expensive #s long as wood is as scarce and dear as it is at present.
4.) Most rooms of the "Home" have to be white-washed, na
during the last monthe of the Jɛpenese Occupation, when this Delegation could no longer provide adequate quan- tities of food to the inmates of the "Home", the inmates used to cook extra foods in their rooms, a procedure which we did our best to stop, but without much suocess; owing to the smoke, the walls of the rooms turned dark.
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The brass-fittings secretly removed by inmetes from doorà and windows in the "Home", such as door-knobs, window handles, for the purpose of resale to the Ketal-Collectom should be replaceable without much difficulty.
The Iron-Beds, Chairs, Rattan-Chairs, Paper-Baskets and Matresses etc., which were no longer available when we
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