CO129-571-3 Sino-Japanese War- allegations against Hankow International Red Cross Committee 25-3-1938 - 10-11-1938 — Page 20

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FOREIGN OFFICE, S. 7. 1.,

9th September, 1938.

1C SEP 1938

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dear Gent,

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Some days ago the Secretary of the Lord Mayor's

Fund for the Relief of Distress in China brought me

copies of some letters exchanged between the Mayor

of Hankow and the Hankow International Red Cross

Committee. These letters dealt with a number of very

mischievous allegations against the Hankow Committee,

which apparently emanated from, or were put about by,

a Mrs. Selwyn Clarke, the wife of the Principal Medical

Officer of Health at Hong Kong. It seemed to me that

considerable harm could be done to the Hankow Committee

and indeed to the Lord Mayor's Fund by the dissemination

of these malicious stories, and I therefore addressed

a telegram to Greenway at Hankow, repeating to Shanghai

and Hong Kong: I enclose a copy herein, together with

copies of Greenway's reply and of a telegram on the

G. E. J. Gent, Esq., D. S.0., 0.B. E., M.C.

subject/

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