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SECRET CIPHER TELEGRAM.
033243.
Desp. 2200/14/2/42.
From:- M. A. Chungking.
To: The War Office.
Rptd. C. in C. India.
Recd.0350/15/2/42.
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IMMEDIATE.
M. 358 cipher 14/2. Your 70261 (P.W.2.A.) 12/2 and C.in C. India's 2900/G. 13/2.
Jan.
Lt. Colonel RIDE repeat RIDE, escaped Jan. repeat
Lt. Col. G. D. R. Black, volunteer medical service, Captain Whitney, R.A.M. C. and (?three) British V.A. D. Nurses including Mrs. Begg taken from Stanley hospital and publicly shot. (750) British nurses were then raped by Japanese troops. 50 (repeat 50) bodies of British officers and men seen bayonetted to death in one area their hands and feet first being tied, Colonel MacPherson R.A.0.C. amongst them.
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