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In
any
further communication
on this subject, please quote
No. K 9036/1225/210.
and address-
not to any person by name
but to-
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The Under-Secretary of State,"
Foreign Office,
London, S.W.1.
Sir,
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FOREIGN OFFICE.
S.W.1.
20th September, 1939.
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I am directed by Viscount Halifax to refer to
correspondence relating to expenditure in Hong Kong on
refugees evacuated from China, terminating with Colonial
Office letter 53838/2/39 of the 27th June, 1939, and to
transmit to be laid before Mr. Secretary MacDonald copies
of correspondence which has passed between this department
and His Majesty's Ambassador at Berlin, and with His Majesty's
Consul-General at Shanghai.
2. From this correspondence it will be observed that a
sum of Hong Kong $1964 remains outstanding, and that recovery
had not been obtained from the German Government before the
outbreak of war.
3.
It would appear that since this sum cannot now be
recovered from other sources it should be met by the Government
of Hong Kong, since the persons in question are in the same
category as those who were previously considered by the
Colonial Office, and were accepted by the Refugee Committee
at Hong Kong in the knowledge that they were not British
subjects and had not been evacuated by the British Evacuation
Committee at Shanghai.
4. I am therefore to express the hope that the amount
outstanding, the sterling equivalent of which is £122.15.0,
may be refunded to His Majesty's Consul General at
The Under-Secretary of State
Colonial Office.
Shanghai