CO129-446 - Others & Individuals - 1917 — Page 580

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to you for fresh instructions.

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This we did, at the same

time suggesting that if you did not wish the Hongkong

Extension scheme to be proceeded with, you should put us

in a position to offer to let it drop, compensating the

parent Hospital for any expectation of support which the

terms of the resolutions passed on the 25th September might

have created. We recommended, by way of compensation, a

contribution of £200 monthly for the duration of the war.

Before we received a reply to this message, an

Emergency Meeting of the Committee was called for the 3rd

November to consider a new proposal to take No. 82 Eaton

Square for the purpose of the Hongkong Extension.

wired to you on the 2nd November.

This we

At this meeting we were invited to acquiese in

the new proposal, but refused on the ground that we had

wired you for fresh instructions and that we felt it to

be necessary to await your reply.

Upon this, the Committee decided to take No. 82

Eaton Square without our acquiescence, stating that they

would offer it, when taken, for the purpose of the Hongkong

Extension and would find other means of maintaining it as a

part of the Royal Flying Corps Hospital if your Committee

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