CO129-570-1 Sino-Japanese War- arrangements for refugees from Shanghai 2-2-1938 - 2-11-1938 — Page 33

Copy to FC. 27.

No. 522

Sir,

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GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HONG KONG.

4th July, 1938.

Enclosure No.1

I have the honour to acknowledge the

receipt of Mr. Ormsby-Gore's despatch No. 125 of

the 11th of May, 1938, regarding expenditure in

connection with the accommodation in Hong Kong

of British refugees from China, and to forward for

your information the accompanying copy of a letter

dated the 18th of May, 1938 from His Majesty's

Consul-General, Shanghai from which it will be

seen that the sum of £147 35 due to the

military authorities in respect of stores and

services has been reduced to £140 8 3. This

sum has now been paid locally.

2.

I regret it is not possible to produce

a certificate of audit of the accounts of the

expenditure incurred for the accommodation in the

Colony of these refugees. The expenditure was

controlled by the Committee appointed and only

those receipts and payments which passed through

the Treasurer's accounts, (that is operations on

the advance account), were checked by audit, but

no local audit examination was made of the records

maintained by the Shanghai Refugees Committee, for

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

MALCOLM MACDONALD, M.P.,

&c., &c., &c.