HONG KONG AS HAVEN FOR BRITONS FROM CHINA
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Received Friday. 11 a.m. HONG KONG. Nov, 11. j Hong Kong, for the second time| In less than 20 years, inay againi become the haven for Britons m] troubled China as the civil war; spreads towards the Yangtse, andj plans have been speeded up for the j possible evacuation oi non- ; essential Britons from Shanghai. j When the Japanese forces at-; tacked Shanghai in 1931. British; women and children were evacu-i ated to Hong Kong. The possibility! of another evacuation "sets the Hong Kong Government a grave problem of accommodating more than 1000 in a city which Is already overcrowded with nc-arly two million people.
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Chronicle (Levin), 12 November 1948, Page 5
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