December 23, 1946
Note to Mr. R.Zindel
c/o Delegation of the International
Committee of the Red Cross
HONGKONG
G.17/64 EXO MAM/AU
No 102.
Subject: Payment of damages
at Rosary Hill R.C.Home
Dear Mr.Zindel,
Please find enclosed copy of a
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letter and annexes which we have received from the British Red Cross.
We have to confess that we omitted to discuss the point in question while you were in Geneva. If we are not mistaken, discussions did not go beyond the subject of your report No 107/45, dated 7.12.45 No 4. "British Funds", which we quote below :
"The only future expenditure, which will still fall under this heading, will be the cost of the reconditioning of the "Rosary Hill" Home, as well as the replacements of various items of Furniture rented from third parties, and which were either broken or disappeared. Some 40 Wash- Basins in the Rooms were either broken or cracked, and will have to be replaced when costs become lower; the game applies to various Brass-Fittings which disappeared from the Home. It is difficult to estimate the cost of the necessary replacement: and repairs, but I hope that it will be below HK $.5.000.00, especially of we can wait for the return of more normal conditions before the work is taken in hand. I am at present negotiating with the Owners of the Home, with a view to securing from them a lumpsum indication, for which they would be prepared to settle the matter, as it seems advisable from this Delega- tion's point of view to get the matter out of the way with the least possible delay."
According to the terms of the lease of