CO129-501-4 Chinese situation- correspondence concerning Shamoan steamship service- running between Hong Kong and Canton 8-1-1927 - 27-7-1927 — Page 11

In any further communication

on this subject, please quote

No. F 4383/35/10

and address-

not to any person by name,

but to-

The Under-Secretary of State,”

Foreign Office,

London, S.W.1.

RECEIVED

23 MAY 1927

COL. OFFICE

"1

30018

22

FOREIGN OFFICE.

S.W.1.

25th May, 1927.

Sir,

2018.

£3, 317.

1927

31

$32, 661.61.

•

With reference to your letter of the 4th

instant (30018/27), relative to the contribution from

Imper ial funds towards the maintenance of the Hongkong-

Canton steamship service, I am directed by Secretary

Sir Austen Chamberlain to inform you that the sum of

three

11 three thousand, three hundred and seventeen pounds,

shillings and eleven pence, being the sterling equivalent

of thirty two thousand, six hundred and sixty one dollars,

sixty one cents, has been transferred to credit of the

Crown Agents for the Colonies.

Jung 15 upg

2.

I am to request that formal receipts for the

payments made may be obtained from the steamship companies

concerned and forwarded to this department for audit

purposes.

The Under-Secretary of State,

4

Colonial Office.

1 am,

Sir,

Your obedient Servant,

Gange Mouncey