CO129-590-27 Ex-employees of Hong Kong Government- relief payments and allowances 27-3-1942 - 16-8-1943 — Page 98

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Normally, we assume, Civil Servants would receive pey for the whole time they were under detention but we should have a ruling from the Colonial Office regarding the position of Chinese ex- employees imprisoned as Volunteers but subsequently released.

We suggest they might receive their Volunteer pey up to the time of release end receive six months notice (as ex-Government employees) from that date plus the usual notice period.

We shell be grateful if you ask the Colonial Office to telegraph their ruling.

Yours ever,

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Refugee Relief Department

Far Eastern Department,

Foreign Office,

Londea.