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GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONG KONG,
4th February, 1936.
Sir,
I have the honour to acknowledge the
receipt of Mr. Malcolm MacDonald's Secret despatch
dated 26th September, 1935, transmitting a copy of a
letter from the War Office with which was enclosed a
copy of a letter addressed by the War Office to the
Admiralty regarding the surrender to the Colonial
Government of the Naval Arsenal Yard at Hong Kong.
2.
The position of the Colonial Goverment
in regard to the aerial ropeway was set out in Sir
William Peel's Secret despatch dated 29th December, 1931,
and I am unable to find in the War Office letter to the
Admiralty of 9th September, 1935, any ground for modifying
the conclusion stated in Sir William Peel's despatch,
namely, that the Colonial Government is entitled to
receive the Naval Arsenal Yard free from incumbrances
and that the diversion or substitution of the ropeway
is a matter for settlement between the Naval and Military
Authorities.
3.
The War Office letter appears to be based
on two main assumptions :-
(i) That the proposals for reprovisioning the
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
J.H. THOMAS, M.P.
&C.,
&C.,
&C.