XXX CONFIDENTI AL.
53654/41
- 5 MAY 1941
C. U. REGY
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GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONG KONG.
13th February, 1941.
My Lord,
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I have the honour to refer to Mr. Malcolm MacDonald's
39 confidential despatch of 1st February, 1940, transmitting for
the observations of this Government a copy of a letter from the 1600
'39 War Office dated 14th December, 1939, and to Lord Lloyd's
confidential despatch of 9th October, 1940, transmitting for the
observations of this Government a further letter from the War
Lo Office dated 10th September, 1940. The suggestion of the War
Office made in the two above-mentioned letters is that in view of
the present abnormal circumstances this Government should allow
the agreed arrangements relating to the acquisition by the War
Department of the site of the new Cantonment at Kau Lung Tsai
to remain undisturbed and should extend the rent free occupation
of the site at Sham Shui Po until the situation has been reviewed
after the termination of the war.
2.
The agreed arrangements are set out in Sir A.
$3654 Caldecott's confidential despatch of 25th November, 1936, in
36
paragraph 10 of which the agreement is summarized as follows:-
"(a) The Colonial Government waives its claim up to a maximum
of $1,000,000 in respect of the rent of the Sham Shui Po
camp site.
In return the War Department will bear the whole capital
cost of the anti-malarial works on the Kau Lung Tsai site,
up to a maximum of $975,000, and the cost of their future
maintenance.
THE RIGHT HONCURABLE
LORD MOYNE OF BURY ST. EDMUNDS, D.S.O.,
&C.,
&C.,
&c.