CO129-595-8 United Nations Relief Rehabilitations Administration Supplies 10-5-1946 - 1-1-1947 — Page 82

QUTWARD TELEGRAM

UR.4739/9/850.

[CYPHER]

No. 5311.

DEPARTMENTAL NO. 1.

FROM FOREIGN OFFICE TO WASHINGTON

30th May 1946.

D. 8.35 p.m. 31st May 1946.

Repeated to:

Hongkong,

Shanghai (for Stent) No. 310.

0:0:0:0

Your telegram No. 3450 [of 24th May: U.N.R.R.A. assistance for Hongkong].

Before consulting Colonial Office, shall be glad to know whether U.N.R.R.A. assistance for Hongkong takes the form of an emergency relief programmę.

If so, are we correct in assuming that Hongkong's ability to pay would not be relevant.

O.T.P.