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But is
Through:
Our Lord,
The Right Honourable,
The Secretary of State for Colonies,
London.
His reellency the Governor and Commander-in-Chief
of Hong Kong.
We, the humble petitioners shewth as follows:-
i. That the petitioners are the members of the Hong Kong Police Force with service ranging from ten to thirty years.
ii. That the petitioners were in Hong Kong when the colony was attacked by the Japanese in December 1941. After the surrender of the Colony to the Japanese the petitioner s were instructed by the then Honourable the Commissioner of Police Mr. Penny-Father-Evens to serve the Japanese Government as we were serving the British Government. We, with no fault of ours, were not interned by the Japanese but were used for policing the Colony.
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iii. That after the liberation of the Colony in 19445, offered and accepted the offer of further service by the Government. The Government after considering our cases 3. A different very kindly re-partiated us to India for recuperation of our
health, and to meet our dear ones in India. We reached India in December 1945 or January 1946.
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iv. That on our arrival in India, we received warm welcome from the Government of India, and arrangements for the payment of our salaries were made by the Hong Kong Govern- ment, and we have received our salaries upto the end of January 1948 through the Hong Kong Government Representative in India.
T. That in June 1947, we were served with the notices by the Hong Kong Government Representative in India to ascertain our wishes, whether we wanted to return to Hong Kong to resume duty or not. All of us replied in affirmative vi. That on the 10th January 1948, to our great regret we were served by the above mentioned Representative with the notices of retirement on abolition of office with effect from the Ist Feb. 1948, and we were further informed that the new scale of salary would not apply to us, as it was intended only for those who were recalled for further service.
vii. That the petitioners appealed to H., the Governor against the decision of the Honourable, the Colonial secre- tary, Hong Kong, that the new scale of salary (revised in 1946 and again in 1947) would not apply to persons repatri- ated to India after the liberation of the Colony on the following groundst-
(a) That the said notice of retirement on abolition of
Office should be withdrawn, and we should be allowed to return to Hong Kong to resume our duties. In case H.E. considered that we must retire which would cut short our careers we begged that the abolition factor should be added to occured pensions. We were aware that in Police Pension Regulations there was no clause for Addition of abolition factor in one pensions, through it was in the Civil Pension Regulations. Te submitted that this clause was inadvertantly left out from the said Regulations, because there had occured no such cases in the Police Force. The Commissioner of Police was armed with the power s