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make up our losses each month we had to give un our jobs and yet other women who stayed behind, got good jobs at high salaries so they ere profiteering out of the Evacuation.
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For over five years I worked as the secretary to the Cheero Club, & club run for servicemen only Sir Percy Noble told me that he thought it was the only club of its kind in the British Empire my whole interest was in that club, yet I had to leave and give up my work, although personally I consider that it was much an essential service s any of the volunteer nurses, who probably would not be of much use in an emergency.
Many of our husbands are in Government service, but the men ere frightened to make too much fuss, as there is the feeling that the herds of deparments will have their own back on the men - isnt it
wful to think that this exists in a free country? I suppose I can only home and pray that my action will not bring disaster to my
husband. I cen assure you he is a trusted and loyal government servent end that he always advises me to try and be patient and make the best of things, and that he knows nothing whatsoever of my action in writing to you. I will tell him later on yes I have been married for seventeen years and for the first time I am not telling my husband something - the Hong Kong Government officials who were the cause of the evacuation must have very guilty consciences and will have much to answer for on Judgment Day.
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If you have waded through all this you will have gathered that our moan is that we consider the evacuation both unnecessary and most unfair, and that we want to go home again will you please give the matter you due consideration, and we have done and will continue to do all we cen for the Homeland. Please let us go back to our
husbands.
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yours help you
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your work
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Yours very truly Mayoiie E. Elston.
(Mrs. A. H. ELSTON),
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