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Mr. Sedgwick
Mr. Bryan
No.506
File R.R.D.No.la)
BRITISH EMBASSY
CHUNGKING
21st November, 1942
92
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Dear Far Eastern Department,
We enclose an extract of a letter dated the 11th October which we have received from Mr. Sedgwick regarding:
Payments to the Next of Kin of Civil Servants dying after the Fall of Hongkong.
We enclose also Fisher's reply to
Mr. Sedgwick regarding the case of Miss Hung Hui Chi who would have been entitled to draw nine months pay had she reached Free China where she could drew it from the Refugee Relief Department acting for the Hongkong Government.
Two uestions have been raised by Mr. Sedgwick:-
1. Is the money we pay out to Government Servants on behalf of the Hongkong Government (a) relief to assist them when they come to China or (b), is it something to which they have legal claim and which can be passed on to their next of kin in the event of their death?
2. Cases have occurred where Government Servants have died before they can report either in Hongkong or China. Are their next of kin entitled to receive what the man himself would have been given?
and we shall be grateful if you will pass copies of this correspondence to the Colonial Office for their ruling.
astern Dept.,
Foreign, Office,
ondom.
Yours ever,
CHANCERY. *