Copy.
Enclosure No. 2.
22
Passport Office,
Hong Kong, 15th September, 1938.
Mrs. Vera Lock, nee Shookailova, states
I married Reginald Redvers Lock on 10th March, 1925, in
Shanghai. He was at that time working for the Shanghai Municipal
Council in the Police Force. He lost his job shortly after our
marriage and then for two or three years he was working for
various firms. He never seemed to be able to hold a job for any
length of time. We both went to England at the end of 1926.
After about ten months holiday there we went to Canada where we
remained for about four years. I had a beauty parlour there
and my husband helped me in the sale of my own beauty
preparations.
In 1930 we returned to England and three months later we
set out to return to the Far East via Siberia. We were then
travelling on a joint British passport. There was some trouble
in Moscow because we had lost our money and we had to ask the
British Consul for assistance. He gave us money to continue to
Vladivostock where I had relatives. We stayed at that port for
about five months as my husband obtained a job on the docks as
a stevedore.
My husband decided that he could not continue to work in Vladivostock so we went to Shanghai. I started another beauty business there making my own preparations and selling them. My husband worked occasionally but he never seemed to be able to stay in any job for any length of time and I more or less supported him for several years. I then found out that he was getting assistance from the St. George's Society and also from his father and as he had not mentioned anything to me about it
I was very angry. In 1936 I became very sick and he took over
my business as I could not work.
When I got better I found that he had pawned everything that we had got (pawn tickets produced)
and that we were both stranded.
We had a big quarrel about it
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