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C/2193.

LONDON.

F780

S FFB 1943

4th February 1943.

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Dear Robin,

Mr. NIELSEN, the Manager of the Great Northern Telegraph Company, who is a very old friend of ours, gave us the attached copy of two telegrams he had received from Kweilin regarding the arrival there of one of their employees, Bent Andreas ANDERSEN, who has escaped from internment at Hong Kong.

He would be very grateful if a telegram could be sent to the Consul by the Foreign Office containing the following questions:

1. Whether ANDERSEN escaped from Hong Kong without

having informed the Company's local Manager of his intention (thus bringing down Japanese reprisals on the Company's remaining staff).

2. Whether he left his wife behind to be supported

by the Company at Hong Kong.

3. General conditions at Hong Kong, and whether the Company's financial position there allows the payment of salaries, or part salaries, to its

staff, or at least the necessary means of subsistence.

Mr. NIELSEN obviously does not want to telegraph £300 of the Company's money from this country unless he knows more particulars, which he rightly considers should not be sent in plain language on a radio circuit which would, no doubt, be intercepted by the Japanese.

We should be very grateful if you could telegraph to Kweilin accordingly.

R. Cecil, Esq.

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Yours ever,

Rutsch Reilly

To Crangking 135-

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