CO129-541-8 W. Russell-Brown- eligibility of Wei-hai-wei service to count towards pension 25-10-1932 - 21-3-1933 — Page 14

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That letter answered

one in which the Foreign Office

proposed that the claims to

pension of Consular officers

seconded for service in Wei-hai-Wei

should be safeguarded by the payment

of pension contributions from

Wei-hai-Wei funds. That the Foreign

Office intended this arrangement to

apply in the case of Mr.Russell Brown

(assuming that he continued to serve

in Wei-hai-Wei beyond the 16th of

August, 1924, when he ceased to draw

pay from the Diplomatic and Consular

Services Vote) seems clear from their

'inclusion of his name in the list

which accompanied their letter

K 3907/1067/210 of the 22nd of March,

(13778/24)

1924,of which we sent a copy to the

Treasury on the 5th of April, 1924.

The