Gov. 53859 Hongkong.
Box
447
Downing Street,
(December, 1924.
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94 for $285 sing. DRAFT.
Rt. Hon.W.C. Bridgeman.
M. P. etc.
etc.,
MINUTE.
Mr. Beckett 17.
Jit.
my Dean Willie
You will be glad to hear that
Hongkong have now made a definite offer
of £250,000 as a contribution towards the
enlargement of the Singapore base. I
enclose copies of the two telegrams I have
had from the Govemor. He is of course
quite right about the military contribu-
tion point, and I am writing to the
Chancellor and the War Office to get their
Mr.
Sir. J. Shuckburgh.
Sir O. Davis.
Sir G. Grindle.17.
Sir H. Lamber,t
bord Arnold.
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Mr. Mary. S. off. has
Zeen +approvid Luca 18/12
2 dfts, conson.
Rech 1.30 hor
In For UC 16 Dec
do
concurrence.
As soon as this is obtained
I propose to telegraph to Stubbs accepting
the offer gratefully in the name of His
Majesty's Government 曲
presume that
at the same time he can be officially told
in a separate telegram that the Admiralty
withdraw their objection to the Kowläon
Ferry Reclamation scheme?
Yours