CO129-589-18 Complaints against evacuation scheme 23-11-1940 - 24-10-1941 — Page 21

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or without full deliberation.

It was regarded,

in accordance with the highest military advice in this

However

country, as an essential defence precaution necessitated

by the political situation in the Far East. one may regret the necessity, it is obvious that

advice of that kind could not be disregarded.

afraid that the decision must stand and that no hope

of its early reversal can be held out.

I am

You may also be interested to see the enclosed

extract from a Hong Kong newspaper containing the report

of a broadcast given in the Colony by Sir Geoffrey Northcote

who recently retired from the Governorship of the Colony.

I return the letter you sent me herewith.

Yours sincerely,

(Signed) G. H. HALL