CO129-590-27 Ex-employees of Hong Kong Government- relief payments and allowances 27-3-1942 - 16-8-1943 — Page 34

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EPARTMENTAL NO. 1

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FROM CHUNGKING TO FOREIGN OFFICE

Sir H. Seymour

No. 772

20th July, 1943

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4.20 p.m. 20th July, 1943 10.05 p.m. 20th July, 1943

My telegram No. 520 [grp. undec. ?paragraph 2] and your telegram No. 630.

Following for Colonial Office from Sedgwick.

Am I to understand that widows of pensionable officers dying after 30th September are to receive (1) arrears of pay up to 30th September (2) lump sum and reduced ad hoc allow- ance which deceased might have drawn up to date of death, (3) gratuity of one year's pensionable emolument. (3) only payable in cases where deceased though pensionable, is not eligible for ad hoc allowance.

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