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6139QAR OFFICE,
18 DEC 23
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LONDON, S.W.1.
17 December, 1923.
Telephone: VICTORIA 400,
All further communications on this subject should be addressed to-
The Secretary,
War Office.
London, 8.W.1,
mad the following number,quoted.
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Hong Kong 8/360 (M.G.O.F.D.).
Immediate.
for
53226
Wo 40446
bu 4704
00. 55744
Sir,
In reply to your letter 53226/23 of the 9th ultimo in connection with the Military Lands question at Hong Kong, I am commanded by the Army Council to say that they agree to the publication of Sir John Oakley's Award, of which a copy is enclosed, and to request you to telegraph to the Colonial Government in this sense.
A telegram making clear the financial conditions on which the Council were prepared to accept the Scheme was despatched by your Department to the Governor of Hong Kong on the 15th August last, and in agreeing to proceeding with the Scheme the Council are relying on the Governor's confidential despatch of the 21st August (forwarded with your letter 47044/23 of 25 October) in which Sir R.3. Stubbs refers to the above-mentioned telegram and agrees that the War Office proposals are quite acceptable. As the Colony had evidently misinterpreted the War Office proposals in the past, the Council addressed a further letter to you on the 14th ultimo (Hong Kong 8/355. M.G.o.F.b.) in order to prevent the possibility of any misunderstandings in the future on the financial points, and they would be glad to receive in due course your official assurance in reply to that letter.
I am,
Sir,
The Under Secretary of State,
The Colonial Office,
S.W.1.
Your obedient Servant,
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