CO129-570-1 Sino-Japanese War- arrangements for refugees from Shanghai 2-2-1938 - 2-11-1938 — Page 44

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British Consulate-General,

Shanghai.

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Copy to Foreign Office, No.136.

May 24th 1938.

His Excellency,

Sir,

I have the honour to refer to Mr. Carrie's

despatch of the 18th February 1938 transmitting

to me the individual files of the Shanghai

refugees, together with statements of the sums still outstanding, and to inform Your Excellency

that on examination of these files it appears

that expenditure has been incurred in connection with refugees who were not British subjects and in most cases were not evacuated from Shanghai.

2. A detailed statement of these cases is

enclosed from which you will observe that most

of the refugees whose names appear therein are

Russians who arrived in the Colony from Canton and Hankow. The only person mentioned in the

list who travelled in one of the ships used for

the evacuation of British subjects from Shanghai

is Mrs. J. Kwonk who travelled in the s.s.

"Empress of Canada". She is a Chinese subject

by birth, married to a Chinese subject and was

not evacuated by this Consulate-General.

3. In his telegram of the 18th August 1937,

a copy of which is enclosed for convenience of

reference, Mr. Davidson advised the Officer

Administering the Government that a number of

non-British nationals were proceeding to

The Governor,

etc., etc., etc.,

HONGKONG.

/Hongkong