CO129-509-8 Military Contributions- claim for relief 24-2-1928 - 15-12-1928 — Page 14

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yet write to them so

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Perhaps Mr. Jones and the Ceylon Department will

advise as to the effect in Mauritius and Ceylon,

but in any case if the War Office think it is a

good system to adopt in Hong Kong I do not really

see why they should be afraid of its extension

elsewhere,

(5) Subsequent semi-official correspondence

between Mr. Amery and Sir L. Worthington-Evans (copies of the relevant extracts are attached to

this file), have made it clear that the claim

for₤114,000 is not to be dropped.

(6) I do not think we intentionally refrained from sending the Treasury a copy of the correspondence and we might now send it.

x

? reply on the lines of the above, enclosing

a copy of No.18. (subject to anything that it might

be necessary to say about

Mauritius and Ceylon). (with all smell)

and send copy of 13 to the Treasury lf.

x

and 11, 14, 15, 17, and reply semi-officially.

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18.12.28

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that Athlong differs from the other

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but Hong Kong.

wood scarcely be affront to sing place

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