CO129-386 - Public Offices & Others - 1911 — Page 155

I think it is h. hat to send this

д

letter back to Sir R. Chalmers, asking

him to prevent

منعا

Yung

ww

form

making themselves ridiculous, painting

out as at A in luv Rolina's munte

я

& adding that when iting. decided that H.K. was to have £33000

(or

if necessay) they obrinusk

that it

didn't mean $26,400. & that

toban

Jay

t

of course

in are not ging & ask HK bpay. it comed probath san

врач

imble thre

letter wie witted raut.

R1

I think it would be best for Sir J. Anderson

to write privately about this to Sir R. Chalmers,

as Mr. Stubbs suggests. I would not go into any

details, since strict logical adherence to the

absurd precedents which have been established

in the past working of this wretched system

give some colour to the present representations.

The broad fact remains that, whatever prece-

dants there may be, the deduction of 20 per cent

from these grants given by H. .G. as part compen-

sation for the loss of opium revenue in which the

policy of H.M.G. have involved H. Kong is abso-

lutely out of the question and the matter cannot

be

even mentioned to the Colony. It might be

added that the very fact of this demand being

put forward by the W.0. and supported by the

Treasury is a very strong additional argument

for the necessity of an inter-Departmental

Bw

Committee to a new scheme of contribution.

A

AFC

1

Whatever may have been in the minds of the Treas.

in consenting to these grants it was certainly not

present in the mind of Lord Crewe,when he asked the

Cabinet to agree to £12,000 for this year and sexKÁ

the same for next year, that one fifth of these amounts

would be recovered to make good the shortage in Army

Votes. That shortage would equally have existed whether

the Treas. made a grant or not, and its existence will

have to be acquiesced in.

Sir J. Anders

با هم

I need hardly day

This letter is preposterous, and we

153

seimply couldn't

exfore moscetes to contempat by letting 18. Key kun of it

Pr. 5712

Oft for me

amely 5:12

Oor