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C. 52802/28 [No. 15].

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No.

PROOF.

SIR G. GRINDLE (COLONIAL OFFICE)

to

MR. J. B. CROSLAND (WAR OFFICE). [Answered by No. C. 52802/28 [No. 17].]

*

MY DEAR CROSLAND,

Downing Street, 31st October, 1928. IN an official letter of the 12th October, about the Hong Kong military con- tribution we mentioned that, if you were unable to accept the proposed new basis of assessment, we should have to take up the various claims for relief on the existing basis put forward by the Officer Administering the Government. We have telegraphed to Hong Kong to ask what would have been the amounts payable for 1926 and 1927 if all the deductions they claim had been made. I enclose copies of the telegramst from which you will see that the contributions on this basis are decidedly lower than on the basis of 121 per cent. of the annual valuation.

* No. C. 52802/28 [No. 13].

Yours, &c.,

G. GRINDLE.

† No. C. 52802/28 [Nos. 11 and 14].

Straits Defence Con.-Gp. 6. 131/2063. 24. 8/34. (18268) M. & S., Ltd.