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* SAVINGRAM
* The word Priority may be entered here, if necessary.
To:-
GOVER OR
HONG KONG.
Mr. Nicholls
Radford
Mr.
20/2
Repeated to:-
Mr. Wallace
1/3
M tawclough
Mr. Sidebottom 1/3 abune
Priority:-
Sir
Permt. U.S. of S.
Parly. U.S. of S.
S. of S.
Nil.
Reply urgently required.
Important.
Immediate.
Most Immediate.
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Secret.
Top Secret and Personal.
Your despatch No. 88 of 25th November,
1948.
Police Petition
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Pension rights of
RECLIVED
·E MAR 1943-
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el. C.D.
on:-
on:-
King
minutes
Wa. & Co. 51/3
Wa, & Co, 51/3
ex-Borough and County Policemen.
1. I regret that Home Office have stated.
definitely that they are not prepared to propose
to the County and Borough authorities
1.
concerned that the men recruited from their
100
forces in 1945 for the Hong Kong Police should
be regarded as on secondment. It must therefore,
County and
I fear, be accepted that so far as the tibéd Branagh
Kingdom authorities are concerned, the United
Kingdom pension rights of these men were
forfeited upon resignation to join the Hong Kong
Police.
2. This decision will have to be conveyed in reply to paragraph. 24(e) of the petition enclosed
with your despatch under reference and will
naturally be a disappointment to the men
concerned. They may perhaps feel themselves to
have been less sympathetically treated than were
their colleagues from the Metropolitan Police
whose pension position was safeguarded and,
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