CO129-577-3 Proposed transfer of military barracks to alternative site 30-1-1939 - 14-12-1939 — Page 22

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Tel. No.--Whitehall 9400.

Any further communication on this subject should be addressed to:-

The Under-Secretary of State,

The War Office.

London, S.W.1.

and the following number quoted.

119/Abroad/2493(L.B.)

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Sir,

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THE WAR OFFICE,

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LONDON, S.W.1.

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14 December, 1939.

I am commanded by the Army Council to advert to previous correspondence with your Department under War Office number as above, (your No.53654) and War Office No.119/Abroad/1877 (yourNo.137343dealing respectively with the site of the new Cantonment at Kau Lung Tsai and with the conditions governing the temporary military occupation of the site at Sham Shui Po.

In consequence of the outbreak of hostilities, it is necessary to postpone the development scheme affecting the new Cantonment, and, in consequence, to retain at Sham Shui Po the troops who would have been moved to Kau Lung Tsai.

The Council propose, in due course, to review the situation in the light of post-War /requirements and, in the meantime, I am to enquire whether, in view of the present abnormal

circumstances, the Colonial Government will be good enough to allow the agreed arrangements relating to the acquisition of the site at Kau Lung Tsai to remain undisturbed, and, at the same time, to extend the present rent-free occupation of the site at Sham Shui Po, until the situation has been reviewed, on the understanding that the question is taken up as early as possible after the termination of the War.

I am,

Sir,

Your obedient Servant,

The Under-Secretary of State,

Colonial Office,

S.W.1.

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