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and to care for the internees until they had

received repatriation or rehabilitation.

MR. STERNDALZ BENNEW thought we should

proceed on the assumption that Shanghai would

be taken by Chinese troops under United States

aegia and not by the Americane from the se8. If

the latter was the case we could certainly rely

on the Americans but the former seemed more

likely and plans should be made accordingly.

SIR ALL H MUS302 said his understanding

was that the American Red Cross would not be

functioning in China.

HT. DAVIDICI said that the British Red

Cross had asked if they could elp and that

Prisoners of ar Department had drafted a reply

making suggestions but they had not covered

China.

It was decided that the meeting should con-

fine itself to the problem in China since

internees in Japan would certainly be looked

after by the A merican forces.

MN. KITSON said that the British Red Cross

team in Chungking were anxious to draw up a

scheme for a team to go into re-occupied areas

when the time arrived.

MR. STERID ME BEREST said that the Foreign

Office had in mind the despatch of a telegram

to Chungking on general lines saying that we had been actively considering the whole

question of relief and rehabilitation of

British Subjects and suggesting that the

Embassy should get in touch with General

/Olmsted