CO129-590-27 Ex-employees of Hong Kong Government- relief payments and allowances 27-3-1942 - 16-8-1943 — Page 84

4.229/14/10.

With the Comp Tents

of the Under Secretas

Son

tate

13 JAN 1943

Ref. Co. Letter No. 20195 4/4/42 18 dated 8. January

F.229/17/10.

[CODE R]

No. 44.

OUTWARD TELEGRAM RECEIVED

14 JAN 1943

Colonial Office

W.B. L. Monson. Esq

L...

2 happ

copied to:?

Tsy.

DEPARTMENTAL NO. 1.

83

FROM FOREIGN OFFICE TO CHUNGKING

D.

3.25 p.m. 12th January, 1943.

12th January, 1943.

m m m

Refugee Relief Department's telegrams of 7th December [relief for ex-Hong Kong employees).

چار

Volunteers are entitled to pay during period of detention.. Locally recruited civil servants, whether European or non- European, are not.

2. Men in question have therefore been paid their due as civilians, but are still owed military pay for period from 1st July to date of release inclusive.