CO129-606-6 Hong Kong Loan- Financial settlement 7-3-1949 - 23-12-1949 — Page 66

reached, there was some misunderstanding in

36 & 46

1948

,Hong Kong on the point whether the liability now under

consideration was included as one of the items of

"expenditure connected with the war". (See your

telegrams No. 406 and 426 of 22nd and 27th April,

1948). The actual expenditure/ean however only be

known when the problem has finally been disposed

of on the lines suggested in paragraph 4 above.

except in

6. I consider therefore that, for the reasons

given above, there is no alternative but that this

problem should be dealt with by the Hong Kong

Government and that any resulting expenditure, with particular cases where the Service Sportment accept liability the exception referred to in paragraph 4(iii) above,

must be met by the Hong Kong Government. I should

however be glad to be informed eventually what/the

actual expenditure/amounted to, pending the receipt

of that information, it is not possible to say

whether any further assistance

Government ie justified or not,

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