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That letter answered
one in which the Foreign Office
proposed that the claims to
pension of Consular officers
seconded for service in Wei-hai-Wei
should be safeguarded by the payment
of pension contributions from
Wei-hai-Wei funds. That the Foreign
Office intended this arrangement to
apply in the case of Mr.Russell Brown
(assuming that he continued to serve
in Wei-hai-Wei beyond the 16th of
August, 1924, when he ceased to draw
pay from the Diplomatic and Consular
Services Vote) seems clear from their
'inclusion of his name in the list
which accompanied their letter
K 3907/1067/210 of the 22nd of March,
(13778/24)
1924,of which we sent a copy to the
Treasury on the 5th of April, 1924.
The