8) [16] Wt. 19126/754 50m. 7/48 C.N.Ld. 748
54447/5/48.
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2:
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Mr.
Radford 28/12
Mr.
Wallace 30/12 s
Mr.
Mr.
Mr..
DRAFT.
COLONEL G.V. SEYMOUR,
WAR OFFICE.
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FURTHER ACTION.
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J.J. Atherton
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Your Reference.
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Permt. U.S. of S.
Parly. U.S. S.
Minister of State
Secretary of State
31 C 1948
120/overseas/300 (I of L(0))
For Mr. Wallace's signature.
Dear Segm
Thank you for your letters of the
and 10." December
30th November about the Chinese and Hong Kong
A
Government claims and
MA
conding
Copy
in respect of railing individly requisitioned in Ang Kong in 1941.
भिने " fist of telegram No.0121 of let July 1941
10
from Grove Hong Kong to e. in C. Middle East, Asford then
about which I spoke
telephone.
2, From Paragraph
you over the
graph 2 of your letter
says
that
it would seem that Item 3 of the claim by
the British section of the Kowloon-Canton
Cappears to be
Railway based on a misapprehension and that
the missing materials necessary to complete
fabrication of the 600 Chinese-owned wagons-
were not in fact manufactured in Hong Kong,
the large amount J The total claim may thus be reduced by some
me I comisa
£79,000 and we shall naturally-wich
Gut-in India
te explain to Hong Kong as fully as possible
why this is so. The telegram 0121 of 1/7/41,
(in the absence of background knowledge); does not assist very much in this connection
and we should therefore be grateful for any
further information which you may be able to
provide from your records.
It would, for instance, be helpful if
we could explain the origin of the figure
£108,000 which appears in both Hong Kong's
claim and in the telegram referred to above.
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