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claim for nearly one million pounds merely
indicate what we had already understood to
be the nature of the claim; and there seems
no goound for admit ting this claim to be
valid either against the U.K. or the Hong
Kong Government. We should propose that the
Chinese Government be told so if they
raise it again; if you and the other
interested departments agre, there seems
no point in discussing the claim any further
at present. I presume that should the
Chinese Communist Government inherit the
claim and raise it, the answer would be
the same; no doubt the Foreign Office
will let us know if they dissent from this
view.
5. So far as the claims by Hong Kong
are concerned, then, may we expect the
War office to make payment shortly on the
basis of the interim settlement of
£12,500 for the War Supplies Board claim
and £56,334 for the Railway claim, as set
out in the statement attached to our
saving No. 235?
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enclosures,
Foreign Office
Treasury.
to
exprysing this, Coates at
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Atherton at the
Yours sincerely,
(Syd) H. P. Hall.