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of double extra pay forthwith in advance of assurances from private firms or ether parties who were afforded assistance by Naval personnel during the strike, but the alaims against these latter should of course be strongly pressed,
Subject to the concurrence of the Colonial Offics to whom a copy of this letter has been sent My Lords have no objection to the proposal that the Commedere at Hong Kong should negotiate direct-with the Colonial Authorities, in the matter.
My Lords would be glad to receive in due course a statement of the additional expenditure involv- od and of the amount if any which it proves impossible
to recover,
I am however to add that My Lords regard it as unjustifiable that anyestra sost should be incurred by Imperial Funds as the result of assistance rendered to a Colonial Government for the purpose of preserving
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