F. 6242/2.
10th May, 1934.
68
Treasury to Colo- hial Office
512.23
Dear Treasury Chest Officer,
The War Office have sent us copies of your
correspondence with the Financial Adviser about the
possibility of obtaining dollars from the Colonial
Government instead of in the open market (from the
Financial Adviser's FACC.1014 of 6.1.32 to your Conf.
T.C.5 of 12.2.34 inclusive).
This is a subject about which the Treasury had
a good deal of correspondence with your predecessors and
I enclose, in case the copies in your office have been
mislaid, copies of the letters noted in the margin. It is
Governor of Hong not clear how anything that may have happened since 1924 Kong to Colonial
Office 103.24
Governor of Hong
can possibly have affected the general principle set out
Kong to Treasury in the first of these enclosures (viz. that both the Chest Officer
Colonial Government and the Chest must benefit by acting
10.3.24
Freasury to
Freasury Chest
Officer 2.6.24
The Treasury Chest Officer,
Hong Kong.
together,