CO129-446 - Others & Individuals - 1917 — Page 586

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With the despatch of that letter our duties under

your commission appeared to terminate.

The end of the matter is that you are committed

to contribute £200 monthly to the Royal Flying Corps

Hospital, in return for which the Committee have undertaken

that the name "Hongkong Ward", at present appearing on the

outside of the door of one of the wards at No. 37 Bryanston

Square, will not be removed.

We regret that there should be so poor an

acknowledgement for so handsome a contribution but we think

you will agree that in the circumstances it was not easy

either to press or to appeal for more, and we even venture

to hope that the difficulties of the position in which we

found ourselves will serve at once to explain and to

extenuate results so far removed from the expectations

reasonably entertained at the outset of the negotiations

which have now been concluded.

Yours faithfully,

SIGNED) J. M. ATKINSON

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M. STEWART.