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merchant, who lived on the same floor in the Prince's Building, who had been helpful to him, and who made frequent trips to Macao, where he could get in touch with Mr. Reeves for me.
Kr. Namazee proved most kind, took messages for me to Mr. Reeve a and gave me money to take to Mrs. Reeves, with the message that she could have all she wanted as he had arranged this with Ur, Reeves and that they hoped to get her out very soon. As Mrs. Reeves was never allowed a pass I acted as messenger. Mr. Nemazee also lent us, this was sometime in larch after I had received money from Wr. Oda, to $500 notes, which were then selling at a discount of $370 each. That meant we had plenty of funds in hand and I was able to do some- thing about medicines. Dr. Canaval explained to me before he returned to Stanley, that the reason I had not been abel to get liver extract for inject ons for my husband was because ly Lilly, who was practically the sole distributor of liver extract in Hongkong, had been looted during the war, and that Dr. Wu, the Guperintendent of St. Stephen' a whose office we in the same building as ly Lilly had bought up the entire supply, and had a corner on it, and was holding it for a very high price, and .... he was under the impression that we had no money to pay him for any that he might use for my husband, It seems difficult to believe this but the fact that as soon as I produced the money Dr. Wu produced the liver extract seems to prove the statement. Unfortunately it came after weeks and weeks of delay, only three weeks before my husband's death, and was too late Dr. Canaval aleo warned me that there was a great deal of trouble going on in the hospital, and not to let them impose on me in any way, and to report to kr. Oda if I found myself in any difficulties. Fortunate ly this was never necessary, 1 always received the greatest kindness from everybody at St. Stephen's the whole time I was there, and was most of the time unaware of the internal friction which I heard later was the reason the Japanese closed the place down in April.
I had always wondered why I had never received any reply to the letter I had written to Mr. Reeves in January, sent through Mr. Kimura and asked Mrs. Reeves to ask her husband if it had ever beenreceived. I found later that it had not. Mr. Oda asked one. day if I knew anything about a check which he had found. I asked what kind of a check and said if I saw it I might be able to tell more about it. In the letter I had written to Er. Reeves I nad but in a check for 100, with Hr. Kimura's permission, and told Mr. Reeves that our need for money was urgent. Mr. Oda replied, "the check was for $100 and you signed it." "Oh!" I said, "Didn't that ever go off?". "No", he replied, "I have it, what shall I do with it, it cam ot be sent." I replied that it had better be torn up, being a crossed check it was no use to anyone, as it could only be cashed through Mr. Reeves account. Later on Kr. Oda spoke to me again about the check, and seemed worried about it, I believe he had mislaid it, and it took some explaining to make him understand the meaning of a grossed check,
But that was the explanation of why I had heard nothing from Mr. Reeves. I was, however, able to send him information about myself and the lackburns and our need of hel
lackburns and our need of wel through his wife, and later through Dr. Ozorio, as well as r. mazee. About two weeks after my husband's death I was stopped by a stranger on" Queen's Road and told that a Mr. Gonzales had a message for me from Mr. Reeves, and wanted me to get in touch with him. I gaw Mr. Conzales who was leaving that day for Macao and said he would see Mr. Reeves. Three days later he returned and told me that Mr. Reeves sent me the following messages, 1st Lot to forget that now that
my husband was dead that I no longer had any diplomatic privileges 2nd That under no circumstan es would t e British Government allow any money to enter enemy occupied teritory; 3rd - That he was
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working through the Portuguese Governor of Macao and hoped to et me and the Black/urns out to Macao, but that I would not be allowed to be in contact with the Reeves or other people, but would have to be isolated, for fear of my divulging military secrets of the Japan se, and that I would have to giv
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