CO129-590-25 Accounts of events leading up to surrender and subsequent treatment of prisoners- etc 23-4-1942 - 28-9-1943 — Page 59

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14th October, 1942.

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My dear Martin,

My dear Harvey,

Lord Cranborne has asked me to send you, for the information of the Prime Minister, 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 Yoosung from the 3rd of June until the 8th of August, 1942, was able to see him daily.

I also enclose a record of Sir Mark Young's statements to Commander Shepherd about atrocities in Hong Kong and some notes which Commander Shepherd has compiled as a result of conversations with Sir Mark about his personal treatment both in the Colony and at Woosung.

Yours ever,

(Sgd.) C.H. THORNLEY.

J.M. Martin, Esq. Oliver Harvey, Esq.,

Esq., C.M.G.

Private Secretary.