Claim to compensation for the damage to their property, and as you will have seen the correspondence enclosed in desp. I have promised W Howard that a further enquiry shall be made by you into the matter.
I think that it would be desirable that you should request Messrs Howard & Stephens to lay before you further documents in support of their claim, that you should obtain from surveyors and other persons having knowledge of the value of property in Hong Kong statements as to the damage which they consider Messrs Howard & Stephens to have suffered. Those statements should be laid before Messrs Howard & Stephens for their observations, and similarly your expert should have the opportunity of commenting upon those made by the petitioners. I think it.