CO129-459 - Individuals - 1919 — Page 500

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distributing medical corforts and stores which had been sent

to her for the purpose from England, America, ard Hongkong,

to the French front line hospitals, the pressing needs of

which she learned while working in a French hospitul, as she

did for over a year. The French Government subsequently

invited her to visit Verdun and Alsace, and later to travel

to the U.S. to lecture for propaganda purjoses. Owing to

my having had to undergo an operation at the time, the latter

Fart of this programe could rot be carried out, hut her

experiences in the former are shortly to appear ir book form.

Before the outbreak of war, she was requested by the Govern-

-ment of the Dutch Indies to visit Java &e;, in order to

write a book on the sul ject. This she did, but the book

has not yet seen the light, because of the attitude adopted

by the Netherlands during the war, as it is of a laudatory

claracter, and she was unwilling to publish such a work at

such a time. She has published a book on Japanese Cardens,

which was a considerable success. As a hostess she has

Troved her ability, notably at Bongking, where we have been

in a position to entertain largely, and when distinguished

persons have visited the Colony (e.g. our own or foreign free

fleets), we have usually given parties to meet them at my

house.

9. I submit that I am professionally, ekecutively,

and socially fitted for a post of real importance, but, as

I as untried in a substantive appointpert of the kind, I ask

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