Pre-war
2 -
Treasury advances
Loans envisaged in respect
of 1946/7 and 1947/8 Further rehabilitation war damage compensation
£1,000,000 3,000,000
6,000,000
10,000,000
46,000,000
£66,000,000
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4.
In my letter of 24th March, 1947, I referred to the Foreign Office claim of £478,629 in respect of expenditure in Kacao for the period 1st January, 1945, to 31st March, 1946. You have received a copy of the Governor's reply No.534 which made it unnecessary to ask for any further issue of the "loan in aid" and accordingly I shall not now expect a reply to my letter, and the Foreign Office claim must remain unsettled until a decision is reached on the question of the incidence of charge of this expenditure; (£11,500 or it is in respect of pensions and salaries and no question should arise as to Hong Kong meeting this expenditure, but it is clear that Hong Kong will find it politically difficult to meet that part of the claim amounting to £467,000 in respect of relief). In paragraph 3 of the telegram, however, the Governor refers also to the opposition to meeting the expendi- ture on the return passages of those who were sent to this country and elsewhere after the liberation of the Colony; and expenditure on the demobilisation and pensions of Hong Kong Volunteers. In this connection
I enclose a copy of a savingram from Hong Kong regarding the cost of the local volunteers.
As you
are doubtless aware the East African Forces came under war Office control at the outbreak of war and the
jost Africa Forces in September, 1940, and the cost
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