5 enclosures
Number 93
(and 2 copies)
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BRITISH CONSULATE-GENERAL,
P.0.BOX 259.
SHANGHAI.
March 31st 1939.
1.To Czechoslovakian
Chancellor in charge, 4/5/38.
2.To Czechoslovakian
Chancellor in charge, 8/7/38.
3.From Czechoslovak-
ian Chancellor in charge, 13/7/38.
4.To Czechoslovakian
Chancellor in charge, 25/10/38.
5.From Czechoslovak-
ian Chancellor in charge, 1/11/38.
My Lord,
With reference to my despatch No.213 of
the 16th August 1938, I have the honour to
enclose copies of correspondence with the
Chancellor in charge of the Czechoslovakian
Consulate-General in Shanghai regarding
expenditure incurred by the Shanghai Refugee
Committee in Hongkong on behalf of Czecho-
slovakian nationals evacuated from Shanghai to
Hongkong in 1937.
2:❤
These persons were not evacuated by
this Consulate-General but on their arrival in
the Colony they were admitted to the Refugee
Centres on the verbal assurance in each case
that the Czechoslovakian Consul-General would
be responsible for the expenditure incurred.
The amounts were not recovered in Hongkong and
accordingly on the transfer of the Shanghai
Refugee Committee accounts to me I rendered a
claim to my Czechoslovakian colleague for the
sum of Hongkong $1996. Of this amount
Hongkong 32 was repaid by Mr. Lebenhart, leaving
a balance of Hongkong 1964 outstanding.
3.
In spite of repeated reminders this claim
has not been paid and as recently as the 3rd
March last the Chancellor in charge of the
Czechoslovakian Consulate-General informed a
His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Office,
LONDON.
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