DRAFT MR. BRYANT 19.11.42.
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54058/4/41
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Gentlemen,.
23
November, 1942.
With reference to Colonial
office letter of the 13th July (50)
No.54058/4/41, I am directed by Viscount Cranborne, to enclose copy of a telegram from the High Commissioner in Australis reporting that a claim for £15,024. 8. 5 Australian has been received from the Commonwealth Treasury in respect of expenditure incurred in
connection with Hong Kong evacuees during the month of April, 1942.
I am to request that you will be good enough to pay the sterling equivalent of this sum from Hong Long funds in your hands, to the Commonwealth High Commissioner in London.
A sum of £2,649.16.-. represent- ing the sterling equivalent of the
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