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Telephone No.

PADdington 7497.

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Telegrams :-"Chinrelief, Padd., London. Cablegrams:-"Chinrelief, London.”

The British Fund for the Relief of Distress in

(INITIATED BY THE LORD MAYOR OF LONDON) Under the administration of a Joint Committee of

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The British Red Cross Society, the China Association and the Conference of British Missionary Societies.

Chairman of the General and Executive Committees :

The Right Hon. THE EARL OF DONOUGHMORE, P.C., K.p.

Chairman of the Medical Supplies Committee:

Maj.-Gen. OLIVER L. ROBINSON,

C.B., C.M.G.

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Chairman of the Finance Committee : D. G. M. BERNARD, Esq.

Chairman of the Clothing & Comforts Committee:

LADY LAYTON.

General Executive Secretary and Treasurer: H. GORDON THOMPSON, Esq., M.D., F.R.C.S.

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Ashley Clarke Esq.,

Far Eastern Department, Foreign Office,

S.W.1.

Dear Mr. Ashley Clarke,

Mrs. Selwyn-Clarke.

121, WESTBOURNE TERRACE,

LONDON, W.2.

15th November 1940

Many thanks for your letter with regard to

As you say that compulsory evacuation

from Hongkong has been suspended, it hardly seems necessary

to take the matter up with the Colonial Office.

same, thanks very much for your readiness to do so.

Yours sincerely,

N. Gordon Thompson

All the

Executive Secretary

and Treasurer.

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