CO129-556-5 Mary MacGregor- investigations into death 19-2-1936 - 20-5-1936 — Page 43

COPY.

Enclosure No. 1.

The British Consul,

Hong Kong,

S. China.

The Beeches,

Carrington,

Boston,

Lincs,

England.

9th Jan. 1936.

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Dear Sir,

Today I received a wire from the Police

at Hong Kong (Hayes P.I.G.P.) saying that my sister Mary MacGregor had died at Hong Kong today. It is a great

grief to me - she had be n an army schoolmistress at

Tientsin with the British Forces there but had recently

resigned owing to illhealth and was leaving Dec. 25 (so I understood from her last letter dated Dec.12/35) and

she expected to leave Hong Kong for home by the Perseus,

Jan. 8th, 1936.

I shall be very grateful if you can give

me any information at all about her the cause of death

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the circumstances, the funeral, pla e of burial and so on - and anything you may know at all about her affairs.

I am of course communicating with the Police

of Hong Kong but am writing you as I thought you might be able, possibly to supplement any information I may

get from them.

She was so looking forward to me seeing

her on her arrival in London, on or about Feb.15.

I am sending this by Air Mail but even so

I expect it will take at least 12 or more days, to reach

you.

Thanking you in anticipation.

Yours faithfully,

(sd.) K.J. Badger

Wife of Bernard M. Badger. (Member, Chartered

Institute of Secretaries.)