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TREASURỲ CHAMBERS,
GREAT GEORGE STREET,
LONDON, S.W.1.
13th April, 1942.
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Will you please refer to your letter of 10th April, and to earlier letters of 21st March and 19th February, on the question of recoveries of amounts disbursed by the Australian authorities on account of Hong Kong evacuees? As you point out in your letter of 10th April, the figures given in paragraph. 2 of telegram No. 389 from Australia indicate that the share of this expenditure which fall on H.M.G., under the general financial arrangements in conne c- tion with the original Hong Kong evacuation, should be at .approximately the rate of £1,300 Australian per month up to the time of the fall of Hong Kong
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We note that in view of this latest telegram, you are able to withdraw the suggestion that the whole of the claim in respect of expenditure from July onwards should be made met from the Colonial Office Vote of Credit.
You propose, as regards July August September, that the money should be paid by the Crown Agents to the Commonwealth High Commissioner in London Crown Agents being authorized to find money from the Joint Colonial Fund, to be recovered from Hong Kong funds as they become available. We agree to this procedure, and to the contribution which you propose from the Colonial Office Vote of Credit, i.e. £1,300 per month in respect of main- tenance allowances, on the understanding that adjustments will be made later, when the detailed facts are known.
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allocation between Hong Kong funds and Colonial Office Vote
I see that, of Credit in respect of October to January. according to telegram No. 389, the Commonwealth Treasury has
We have no submitted claims up to the end of November. objection to what you propose so far as October and November are concerned. As Claims have not been received for the period after the end of November, and Hong Kong fell in December, it seems convenient to consider separately the period up to the end of November.
W.B.L. Monson, Esq.,.
Colonial Office.
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