Chinese seamen at a hostel in Liverpool in May 1942. Photograph: Bert Hardy/Getty Images Letters Fri 28 May 2021 11.15 EDT Last modified on Fri 28 May 2021 11.38 EDT We congratulate Dan Hancox, and the family campaigners who helped him, for bringing into the open at last the story of the Chinese seamen secretly rounded up and forcibly deported from Liverpool as soon as their services were no longer required for the war effort (The secret deportations: how Britain betrayed the Chinese men who served the country in the war, 25 May). Nothing can compensate for the suffering inflicted on them, and on the wives and children from whom they were so cruelly separated with neither explanation nor farewell.