Letters from John Swire and Sons London office to Bombay (Mumbai), Hong Kong, Shanghai, Chungking (Chonqing) and Sydney. Includes correspondence concerning; staff movements and assignments; staff health; staff leave; cost of living; 'rehabilitation grants' given to staff repatriated from Hong Kong; salaries, allotments and allowances; interned staff and conditions in internment camps; relief parcels and allowances sent to interned staff; Provident fund and staff and Company contributions; memo concerning registration of claims for compensation of property as a result of the war; efforts to secure release of staff from military service; plans for return to Hong Kong and China offices; repatriation passages; printed letter to all staff or 'Taikoo People' listing staff members who died during the war, and acknowledgign the specific conditions endured by staff including interned staff and London staff; statement of conditions and grants to apply to interned and prisoner of war staff.
Includes name and subject index.