Co
OUTWARD
TELEGRAM
126/1/46
TO HONG KONG (Bir H. Young)
FRCU S. OF S. COLONTES.
Sent 22nd July, 1946. 13.15 hrs.
IMEDIATE
NO
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Your telegram No.570 of 12th July,
Hong Kong Estimate: .
I am grateful for very full information given bus oving to the short time available for a reply I can only comment gszerally at this stage. I had intended to comment more fully on the Ccmander-in-Chief'a telegram 0. Al3685 cr 3rd April but deferred doing so perding consultation with Follows. This has now proved to ba ingonuible and I will comment as fully es possible after dlõcussions with it is hoped to errengoad with MacDougall en July 26tn.
2. teanwhile, I ma atvaid I camiot be committed to approving the total expenditure indicated in your telegram under reply; nor to the procedure suggested in paragraph 7 whereby the whole of the defied, which, An part, grises out of expenditure properly ohargeable to Loan should temporarily be met by H. M.G. Whilst in principle I am atrongly in favour of a loan being raised an 5000 AB, conveniout, I should require more information which is no doubt in your detailed despatch as to the pocsibilities of reising a loan, locally, ita terms and the purposes for which it will be applied, before I coulà comu to any definite conclusion; if on the other hand, the expenditure were to be financed by H.M.Q. I would similarly need full information before I could be cœmitted to it. in the circumatanose, I cannot give a decision on the matter until receipt of the detailed despatch pomised in your
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