The evacuation of women and children of British: and other nasonalities has resulted in a temporary depression in Hongkong, and several business firms have already begun to Cut costs, letting go members of their Particularly hapless is the, situa tion of Hongkong's "Mobile Nurses, the volunteer nurses who underwent Intensive training for some time and who put In such admirable work uring the heetie days of the evacua~ tion. 'They then helped greatly with the' children, small luggage and in many other ways.
These "nurses now face the prospect of being out of work by the fend of July. Most. of them, with specialized training, will find it dif-Aeult to get other work, it is feared.
There {s nothing to prevent them from joining the other women evacuees, according to. an official spokesman. But these nurses stayed in Hongkong thus far expressly because they did not wish to leave their people and hemes.
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