REPORT FROM LT-COL. RIDE.
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From it erviews with Volunteer Escapees, we have learre d that many people in Hongkong know that I am here and that there is some sort of British Army organisation based
it must therefore, here, but apparently no details are known;
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Clarke
be assumed that the Japanese also know of us, because we have the names of a number of 5th columnists amongst the Volunteers. We are taking great care to detect signs of ople amongst the refugees who may have been sent out specially to contact us.
She and Liss Cons tance First ont he list comes Mrs. Kendall. Lum were the only Chinese permitted by the Japanese to live on the Peak. Before the war she was clos ely connecteddwith Dr. Selwyn-Clarke - Director of Medic al Services - through her husband who worked with Clarke on a number of schemes. is clever, cunning, crooked and unscrupulous to a degree and has gained great commendation from all the people in Hongkong by remaining free and helping the internees by playing up to
is bating them at their own the Japs and as Thompson says game; my view of the positi on is that anyone who carries out work (no matter how humane) for the enemy is liberating one more Japanese to fight against us; Clarke is doing this work to save his own skin and saved the disco fort of the
He still concentration cemp; and what price does he pay? has a room in his old office along with Colonel Eguchi, and
is lady friend, the Japanese military and civil A.US..S. Miss Constance Lum, is living in his old house on the Peak,
Mrs. Lend all which is officially occupied by Colonel Eguchi.
Japanese Colonel never lived too, but she states that the occupied the house although he was going to do so in the
and Miss L. used to go up and down in a car summer; rs. A. supplied by the Japanese wed. Dept. and the former has toli me of dinner parties in the house attended by both Clarke and Eguchi.
The Jama nese have not made concessions to Clarke on this scale for nothing and it was through him that Kendall
Ars. K. proposed making all his o ntacts with the cams! wanted to come and live in the new house here (alan was asked to aproach me about it but I turned it down) and do all our typing; she knows far too much about the group and asks far too many indiscreet questions about our organisation. Her statements about Scriven talking too much are not
information she alleged absolutely true, because some of the Scriven is closed to here was finitely not in Scriven's possession.
ves helped out by the Tom nesed two officers cane to the border to see her safely through.
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