CO129-589-3 Sino-Japanese War- attack on medical convoy- Maryknoll Leper Mission 20-5-1941 - 14-8-1943 — Page 17

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Mr. Paskin.

Mr. G. E. J. Gent.

Mr. G. L. M. Clauson.

Mr. C. J. Jeffries.

DRAFT.

C.H.M. Wilcox Esq.

Treasury.

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Copy/14/53838/59.

FURTHER ACTION.

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Dear Wilcox,

Form: Pasami Lig

Расмий

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55085/43.

53838/59/43.

Sir A. Dawe

Sir W. Battershill.

Permt. U of S.

Parly. U.S. of S.

Secretary of State,

C. D.

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We would like to put up for your consideration a

difficult position into which we have been projected

by an earlier commitment of the Long Kong Govt.

1. As a result of the extension of the sino-Japanese

war to South China, large numbers of refugees flocked

from the mainland of China into hon, Kong, and this

factor was responsible for an increase in the

number of lepers far beyond the capacity of the

available hospitals in the Colony. The Govt-there-

upon decided to transfer the "non-regisent" Lopers

of Chinese nationality to ertain esylums in China

Proper, which had agreed to accept them, and at pic

same time to guarantee annual grants for their main-

tenance.

200 of these lepers we re accepted in April 1941 by

the Maryknoll Mission, an American Catholic organis-

ation, which has a leper asylum at Ngaimun, at the

entrance to one of the channels of the West River

below hacao and presumably within the area now under

Japanese control, and the h.lg.Govt.agreed to pay

HK$6.00 per head per month for their upkeep. The Embassy at Chanting

payment which has been continued th

their boksas. fummm HK. funds.

The Ambassador at Chungking, however, has now

telegraphed a recommendation, copy of which is

thus

enclosed, that if the H.kg. Govt. has a moral oblig-

ion for the full maintenance of these lepers (nov

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the monthly allowance should be