CO129-590-25 Accounts of events leading up to surrender and subsequent treatment of prisoners- etc 23-4-1942 - 28-9-1943 — Page 61

SECRET.

Dear Hicks,

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Downing Street,

S. W. 1.

October, 1942.

you

I am very much obliged to for arranging for Lieutenant Commander Shepherd to come over and see me this evening. I enclose a copy of the document which he brought with him, and you will no doubt dispose of it in the Admiralty as you think best.

Would it be possible for us to see a copy of the separate report which he mentions in the final paragraph of enclosure No. 3. I think it would be of considerable interest to us.

I

On a rather different point we thirst, as you know, for information about present conditions in Malaya. understand that there is a lady, Mrs. Keene, the wife of Paymaster Lieutenant R. D. Keene, R.N.V.R., who will be arriving in a few days in the exchange ship. She joined the ship at Singapore I understand after spending about a fortnight there in the course of her journey from Saigon. Would it be

/possible

MAJOR J. S. HICKS, R.M.,