CO129-585-7 Sino-Japanese conflict- interned Chinese soldiers 18-1-1940 - 27-12-1940 — Page 29

CONFIDENTIAL

Dear Gent,

GOVERNOR

STRAITS

QUI

SETTLENE

18 29

RECEIVED

6 JUN 1940

C.O. REG

GOVERNMENT HOUSE

SINGAPORE

27th May, 1940.

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With reference to your confidential letter

53838/35/40 of 6th May, 1940, I can assure you that,

much as we should like to assist in the solution of

this problem, it is out of the question that we should

receive the internees in this country.

Problems of

defence are giving us too much anxiety to permit of

any such additional demand upon our resources of man-

power as the surveillance of these internees would

entail.

Nor do the political conditions here encourage

us to accept into our midst soldiers of the Chinese Army.

G.E.J.GENT, ESQ., 0.B.E.,

COLONIAL OFFICE,

LONDON, S.W.1.

Yours sincerely,

S.L

5. L. foun