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to :-

All communications should be addressed

"The Secretary,

Department of Intelligence

and Public Relations."

Telegraphic Address:

**RENSEIGNE, PARL, LONDON."

I.P.R.191/16

Dear Ronald,

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DEPARTMENT OF INTELLIGENCE AND

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F 7121

11 JUL 1939

PUBLIC RELATIONS,

BOARD OF EDUCATION,

304

WHITEHALL,- London, SW-1.

Alexandra House,

Kingsway, London, W. C.2.

7th July, 1939.

You will by this time have received my letter of July 5th

in which I promised you a further communication about the Chinese

students attending the Chelsea Polytechnic and the Manchester College

of Technology. I am afraid that we cannot help you with

regard to them except by letting you know how the land lies.

There is a Government evacuation scheme for certain classes

of persons, mostly children and some mothers. The Ministry of

Health controls the scheme, and it is carried out by the Local

Authorities. The Board of Education is merely concerned with

the educational arrangements to be made for the evacuated children.

The oldest of these will be secondary school children and full-time

junior technical school children. The scheme does not touch either

university students or senior full-time technical students or, of

course, part-time students. That is to say the scheme does not

touch any of the students who are the concern of the China

Institute.

Some Universities with the knowledge of the Ministry of

Health have made schemes of their own for evacuating University

students. It is for each University to decide whom they will or

will not include in the scheme.

Thus no arrangements are being made for full-time senior

technical students, British or other, in the event of war either

for their safety or for the continuance of their education.

It would not be practicable to make official arrangements

for the continuance of the studies of the students referred to in

the preceding paragraphs since most of our technical institutions

are in evacuation or neutral areas, and in the event of war the work

N.B. Ronald, Esq.,C.M.G., C.V.O.,

Foreign Office.

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