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provided without delay (2) in a house which would bear
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the name of the Hongkong Hospital for the Royal Flying Corps,
(3) expenditure on which would be limited to the funds made
available by the Hongkong War Charities Committee.
We regarded these three undertakings as the
basis on which agreement was reached. It involved giving
Hongkong a distinct part of the Hospital to support. That
is to say, the request originally made by the Colony had
been conceded.
It seemed to us that a further modification
of the attitude originally adopted by the War office could
be read into the statement that the "cost of upkeep would
be regulated according to the funds made available",
the
inference being that "the funds made available" were to
be devoted to "the cost of upkeep", namely, of the Exten-
sion.
We at once pointed this out to the President of
the Hospital, who could only say that he had drafted the
telegram himself and that he had not intended these words
to convey this meaning.
Our concern, however, was to know how you had
understood them. On enquiry at the Colonial Office we