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Mr. Wallace 2618
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Your Reference ..
Permt. U.S. of S.
Parly. U.S. S.
Minister of State
Secretary of State
S. D.
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DRAFT. Despatch
Governor, Hong Kong:
Confidential. 273
ir:
(1)
I have, etc., to refer to your
despatch 10. 144. of the 13th May, 1948
about
seguraing the liability of the Hong
Kong Government to replace certain
funds in their custody before the
war which were confiscated by the
Japanese during the enemy occupation.
FURTHER ACTION,
2. This matter has been carefully
advised
and
4
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considered by my lejul buvisers who uro
or the opinion that, so far as those
funds which were placed in a separate
account are concerned, there is no liabili-
ty upon the Hong Kong Government to
replace them but that in respect of
those funds which were paid into the
general Government Account, the Hong Kong
Government cannot avoid liability except
upon the ground that a strong degree
of probability existed that the funds
would have been seized in any event,
even though they had been placed in
separate accounts.
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