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BE WRITTEN

IN THIS

MARGIN.

Registry F-5009/177/10

No:

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463

INVE 1940

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Thu. Gent

Colonial Office

From Mr.

Cancelled.

Dr Gordon Thompson, the trecutive

of

Ashley Clarke Secretary If the British Fund for the

Relief of Distress in China, recently called on Steindale Bennett and said that his organization understood that Mrs Selwyn Ci se

se, who

ر

is their representative in Hong Kong, was being obliged to leave them the Colony as part of the evacuation scheme. Mrs Selwyn

he added Clarke was

wastan

extremes active representative, and her departure would be a real loss.

It

I war pointed out to Bxfordon bhompson that we felt some

Выстрота difficulty in pressing the cart.

We realize that the Honglong Goot have recently recommended that the operation of the evacuation scheme should be tightened up

of this Selwyn Clarke is exempted and that some of those who have

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NOTHING TO

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