CO129-590-25 Accounts of events leading up to surrender and subsequent treatment of prisoners- etc 23-4-1942 - 28-9-1943 — Page 54

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Dear Knott,

99th October, 1942.

Lord Cranborne has asked me to send you, for the information of Ģeneral Ismay, the enclosed copy of a memorised despatch from Sir Mark Young, Governor of Hong Kong, reporting on the circumstances which led to the surrender of the Colony on the 25th December last year. This despatch was memorised by Lieutenant Commander Shepherd who, as a prisoner of war in the same camp as Sir Mark Young at Woosung from the 3rd of June until the 8th of August, 1942, was able to see him daily.

Yours sincerely,

(Sgd.) C.H. THORNLEY.

Private Secretary.

Paymaster Commander M.H. Knott, R.n.