53654/39
NO. CONFIDENTIAL.
53654
23
(#1)om
to
16/53654/36.
Sir,
!
"
CEIVED
- 9 NOV1939
GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONG KONG.
C. O. REG 30th October, 1939.
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt
of your confidential (2) despatch of 25th September, 1939,
transmitting, for my observations, a copy of a letter
from the War Office dated 17th August, 1939, with regard
to a proposed revision of certain of the arrangements
under which the Government of Hong Kong have provided
land for War Department purposes at Kau Lung Tsai
2.
I have to confirm that, as stated in the War
Office letter referred to above, the Colonial Government
has agreed to the abandonment of the construction of two
of the proposed roads, namely Golden Hill Spur and the
-
Pipers Hill Hau Wa Kang roads.
3.
Details of the agreement by which a number of
roads were to be constructed from Military funds and
subsequently handed over to the Colonial Government as
part of a general settlement of financial claims
outstanding between the War Department and the Colonial
Government are set out in Sir Andrew Caldecott's
confidential despatch of 25th November, 1936. The
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
MALCOLM MACDONALD, M.P.,
&C.,
&C.
&C.