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C. 92622/32 [No. 20].

PROOF.

No.

HONG KONG.

THE SECRETARY OF STATE to THE GOVERNOR. [Answered by No. C. 92622/32 [No. 21].]

(Confidential.)

SIR,

Downing Street, 7th March, 1933.

I HAVE the honour to refer to my Confidential telegram No. 25 of the 4th March* of which a copy is enclosed and to previous correspondence regarding the basis of assessment of the Hong Kong military contribution and to transmit to you a copy of correspondencet with the War Office embodying the agreement which has been reached with that Department.

I consider that this agreement should be accepted as a reasonable settlement of the outstanding matters in connexion with the military contribution.

I shall be glad if you will submit for my consideration the draft of any Bill which it is proposed to introduce to amend the Military Contribution Ordinance.

I have, &c.,

P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER.

* C. 92622/32 [No. 17]: not printed. Straits Defence Con.-Gp. 6. 131/2963.

† No. C. 92622/32 [Nos. 16 and 18]. 24. 8/34. (18299) M. & S. Ltd.

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