CO129-501-4 Chinese situation- correspondence concerning Shamoan steamship service- running between Hong Kong and Canton 8-1-1927 - 27-7-1927 — Page 22

In any further communication

on this subject, please quote

No. F 35/35/10

and address-

not to any person by name,

but to-

The Under-Secretary of State,"

Foreign Office,

London, S.W.1.

REC

15JAN 1927

COL.

30018/3

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FOREIGN OFFICE.

S.W.1.

14th January, 1927.

Sir,

hal

With reference to Treasury letter No. S 27311/01/2 of

the 3rd instant approving the payment from Imperial funds

of fifty per cent of the net loss on the Hongkong

Canton Steamship service for the period from September

3rd, 1925 to April 20th, 1926, I am directed by

Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain to suggest that if this

payment is accepted by the shipping companies concerned

on the understanding, laid down by the Treasury, that no claim

will be made by the companies in respect of the period after

the 20th April, it could be most conveniently made through

His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong.

2.

If Mr. Secretary Amery concurs in this proposal, Sir

Austen Chamberlain would be glad if the necessary instructions

could be sent by telegraph to the Governor. The amount of

the payment could then be claimed from this department in

the usual way. It is important, on financial grounds, that

the payment should be made before the close of the current

financial year.

The Under Secretary of State,

Colonial Office.

I am,

Sir,

Your obedient Servant,

George Mainsey