CO129-590-23 Situation in Hong Kong 25-4-1905 - 25-4-1905 — Page 89

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With reference to my despatch109 of May 7th u transmitting copies of Miss Mavis Ming's report on events and conditions in Hongkong, I have the honour to forward, herewith, a report written by an American Chinese lady who left Hongkong on March 22nd and recently arrived here.

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This report is necessarily repetitive of

information which has been received before but it is informative and well written. Miss Thom, the writer, is a highly educated and travelled woman who has been employed in the Education Department of the Hongkong Government since September 1929.

3. Miss Thom was the source of the report that the Japanese profess to be anxious to get rid of civilian internee, especially women and children, but that the only obstacle is the attitude of His Majesty's Government and the United States Government. She is insistent upon the urgent need of evacuating internees, especially children, without delay if wide spread disease and mortality are to be avoided.

4. A copy of this report is being sent to the Director of Military Intelligence, India; two additional copies are enclosed with this despatch, for communication to the War Office and to the Canadian Department of External Affairs at Ottawa.

I have, etc.

(Signed) H.J.Seymour.

The Right Honourable

Anthony Eden, M.C., M.P.,

Foreign Office,

London, S.W.1.