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DRAFT. LETTER
D.R. SERPELL, ESQ., OBE.,
TREASURY.
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FURTHER ACTION.
Recirc. for action in regard to last para on appropriate file.
Permt. U.S. of S.
Parly. U.S. of S.
Secretary of State.
how to so
For Miss Ruston's signature,
Dear Mr. Serpell,
Would you please refer to your letter
5.52892/05 of the 20th November about terms of
service for the Indian section of the Hong Kong
Police Force. We have now had the advantage of
discussing the points you raise with Mr. Sansom
late Commissioner of Police who has just returned
from Hong Kong.
On the question of the "high cost of living
allowance" it is true that as this allowance is
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largely connected with the high cost of food,
and as the India Police are to have free rations
which the Chinese Contingent do not, it might
be argued that the Indians should not have the
high cost or living allowance. As you know, however, from the Governor's Secret despatch
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