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Is it the case that for this sum the Kowloon

-Canton Railway (British Section) contracted

in 1941 to manufacture all missing parts, and to sort, marks and prepare

to

existing materials and/deliver all parts on board ship,

specified vessels, but that owing to the incidence

of the Japanese war the missing parts were, in the

event, manufactured not in Hong Kong, but in India?

Or was it in fact never intended that the Kowloon

Canton Railway (British Section) should do more

mark and pragnes

than sort the existing wagon materials and deliver them

it to the ship?

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board ship?

4. So far as the War Supplies Board claim is

concerned we agree that it is not possible, at this

stage, to formulate alfigure in full and final

(as suggest, the vines settlement and we think that in the circumstances/ the Hmy King Svemment might well be sought in an interim settlement. interim settlement ought to be made. This we suggest might

freight charges plus 2% should be a sum equivalent to the total freight-okerges, Amin in on the admitted Chinese and British Section's plus 2% commission calculated en your valuation of these

chains come 6 (7) Hong Kong and Chinese clams which are admitted in principle,

fem

We should prefer to dispose of these metters

before making an approach to Hong Kong on the other

points dealt with in your letter and we think it might

De profitable if we could discuss them with you at

a further meeting. Perhaps you would let me know

by telephone whether you agree to this suggestion

and if so we could arrange to meet as may be mutually

convenient.

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setting the poing then and women be

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