CO129-606-5 Hong Kong Loan- Financial settlement 2-3-1948 - 4-10-1948 — Page 159

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TELEGRAM/SAVINGRAM–

55136/83/1/48 and 55175/19/48

GOVERNOR, HONG KONG

For transmission :-

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Index

Cypher

Priority-

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Kaply Kzgani MOTOXXX. Inmed plex

Most Immediate.

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File No.

54126

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отр 1945 hours.

1948.

No. 498

Restricted

Confidential.

Secret.

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Your Telegram No. 406 of 22nd April.

1. As you will now have seen from Caine's

personal message in my telegram No.494, it has

never been the intention here that His

Majesty's Government should assume liability

in connection with denial Claims in Hong Kong.

It is moreover, quite out of the question, in view of the Attitude which His Majesty's

Government have adopted towards similar

makes it impossible simil

claims elsewhere thyer may agree with ry wisertations of

that they should accept this

you

liability, except in so far as the United Kingdom

that they sho

Services Departments may accept liability for certain claims of a denial character when the denial was Denial Claims effected at their instance. Thus

The position in Malaya is that the

at

financing of a War Damage Compension Scheme,

including/

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