CO129-566-12 Fuel allowance for Army personnel in Hong Kong 14-9-1938 - 29-9-1938 — Page 3

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(in the winter) they are as often used.

Why this

should be, seeing that temperatures never drop to

freezing point, I do not exactly know.

The

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War Office reasons are the popular science version

most generally accepted: to which can be added the

fact that coal in Hong Kong (which mostly comes from

north China) is generally of poor quality as compared

with home and does not give out a comparable heat.

(The War Department in Hong Kong may, of course, have

their own sources of supply).

All I can say is that if I were limited

throughout the Hong Kong winter to half the amount of

fuel used in England I would feel distinctly

aggrieved - and also, I am quite sure, distinctly

chilly.

Dm maningall.

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