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our ships on a 5 months time charter, to take men in the Northern Command who were in indifferent health or other- wise requiring a change for a holiday trip to Weihaiwei. I have suggested to the General that the monies thus incurred might be utilised to evolve and put into practice some such scheme as that set out above, and he is by no means unsympathetic. He has promised to telegraph to London on the subject, and I am wiring our London office tomorrow, giving them the gist of the idea and asking them to do what they can to have some such scheme accepted by the Authorities there.
H.E. has also promised to use his influence with the Colonial Office, though he doubts whether they will be able to do very much for it. I mention this in case you may think it desirable to submit the idea to the Minister in Peking, with a recommendation from yourself that it should receive his careful consideration.
If you should be
able to assist in this or any other practical way I am quite sure you will do so, particularly in view of the
urgency of the whole question.
Yours etc.,
(Signed) F. S. BROWN.
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