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then asked whether the whole or a distinct part could be

entrusted to the Colony to support. In reply to this it

was stated that the Royal Flying Corps Hospital was estab-

lished at No. 37, Bryanston Square; that the cost of upkeep

was about £75 a week; and that it was "impracticable either

to hand over the whole to Hongkong to support or to divide

it".

That was on the 11th April, At this time no

mention had been made of the amount which your Committee

proposed to contribute and it is not difficult to understand

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that it was regarded as impracticable to divide a hospital

constituted on so small a scale. When, however, in the

telegram dated the 2nd May, you offered to contribute £10,000

a year, you made it practicable to enlarge the Hospital and to entrust a distinct part to the Colony to support. From

the conditions accompanying this offer it seemed to us that you had still hoped the War Office would in consequence

acquiesce in this but, when we received your telegram of the

15th June telling us that we were to represent you on he

Hospital Committee and instructing us to communicate with

the Colonial Office, we did not know the precise terms

in which your offer had been accepted.

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