CO129-551-11 J.C. Kaye- query over responsibility for payment of pension 18-1-1935 - 31-5-1945 — Page 26

No. 427.

Sir,

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GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HONG KONG.

12th July, 1935.

I have the honour to refer to your telegram

18 No.39 of 22nd June, 1935, and to confirm my telegraphic 22/reply of 4th July, 1935, which read:-

مار

"Your telegram No.89. No option has been given.

I agree that both options should now be given. No objection to further advance of 40.

follows."

2.

Despatch

I now enclose, in substitution for the

enclosures under Sir William Peel's despatch No.321 of 16th May, 1935, a calculation of the pension payable outright by this Government and of that payable by this

Government but recoverable from the Home Government, and

showing alternative calculations under pension regulations A and B. The error in the calculation previously sent is

regretted.

I have the honour to be,

Sir,

Your most obedient, humble servant,

No. D. Southosh.

Officer Administering the Government.

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

MALCOLM MACDONALD, M.P.,

&c.,

&c.,

&c.