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time it should be near the sea and have some road and/or
rail access. It would be difficult to set up a camp in
Hong Kong as the water supply of the Colony is probably
insufficient to deal with the problem on a large scale and
it is itself already over-crowded with refugees. Housing
accommodation is insufficient and there have been two
epidemics recently, the first from cholera and the second
from smallpox, while in the past few months there has been
a weekly total of some 40 to 50 deaths from various infectious
diseases.
A telegram is attached giving recent figures of
18mmigration into Hong Kong, and showing the large increase
which has resulted in the last six months from the hostilities.
will no doubt be awar
The Secretary of State
that
in October last year the Archbishop of Canterbury presided
at a meeting in the Albert Hall when public protests were
made against the bombing of Canton. That meeting in itself
aroused great indignation in Japan, and the fact that it was
presided over by the Archbishop himself led to protests by
the Japanese Government. In view of the Archbishop's high
position in the State and the position of ecclesiastical
dignitaries in Japan, Japanese public opinion believed that
the Archbishop's presence at the meeting was tantamount to
Government approval of what was said there. In a telegram
of the 5th of October His Majesty's Ambassador reported that
the vernacular press was becoming more and more critical of
the attitude of Great Britain towards the present hostilities,
and was deeply incensed at the report that the Archbishop of
Canberbury presided at a meeting to protest against Japanese
bombing activities in China.
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