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The secret deportations. How Britain betrayed the Chinese men who served the country in the war.

During the Second World War, Chinese merchant seamen helped keep Britain fed, fueled and safe.

And many gave their lives doing so. But from late 1945, hundreds of them who had settled in

Liverpool suddenly disappeared. Now their children are piecing together the truth.

By Dan Han Cox, read by Christina Tam and produced by Esther Apoku Jenny.

On 19th October 1945, 30 men gathered in Whitehall for a secret meeting. It was chaired by Courtney

Dennis Karoo Robinson, a senior home office official. And he was joined by representatives of the

Foreign Office, the Ministry of War Transport and the Liverpool Police and Immigration Inspectorate.

After the meeting, the Home Office's Aliens Department opened a new file, designated Home Office 213-926.

Its contents were not to be discussed in the House of Commons, or the Lords, or with the press,

or acknowledged to the public. It was titled compulsory repatriation of undesirable Chinese seamen.

As the vast process of post-Second World War reconstruction creaked into action,

this deportation programme was for the Home Office and Clement Attley's new government,

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