CO129-579-9 Sino-Japanese War- release of interned Chinese soldiers 27-1-1939 - 7-12-1939 — Page 3

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4 dir Itafford Cripps

512.39

Encloses of letter of extract from local paper from

a correspondeas in H.K. Requests obsons.

in Cowell

Mr Blaxte

I attach a letter which the Secretary of State

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has received from Sir Stafford Cripps, M. P., enclosing

one which he has received from a correspondent in

Hong Kong. An interim acknowledgment has been sent.

Perhaps you would be good enough to advise the

Secretary of State as to the further reply? UNDER STAT

(gd) b. Creasy

8.2. '39

In Jairworthy

q

There is corresp. on the interment

soldiers. Please

Please annex r

adph

A Plowell

6. Goo.

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conf. (2)

23.1.39

The we Is copies of record of proceedings ar

courts

military

of inquiry which investigated D'incidents I attempted cocapes from

the

camp.

This despatch tells of several attempts to

There escape from the Ma Tau Chung Internment Camp.

have been in all something like twenty-two attempts

to escape, in which one or two of the interned

Chinese soldiers have been fired on by the sentries.

One of these cases has since proved fatal, and the

Governor states that a civil death enquiry into the

is circumstances of his death has to be held by a

magistrate with the assistance of a jury.

But the really major case is the escape

of 109 soldiers by means of a manhole. However, the

manholes