Saving.
Dft. on 55081/258/48
From the Secretary of State for the Colonies.
To the Officer Administering the Government of....
Date 9 February, 1949
161
No...
Saving.
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HONG KONG
My Savingram Addressed Federation No.138; Repeated Singapore No.122: Addressed Hong Kong No.129: Addressed North Borneo No.45:· repeated Sarawak No.45 Outstanding Claims. Passages.
2. On the basis of the arrangement mentioned in paragraph 5 of above savingram internees who proceeded to the Dominions to join their evacuee families were provided with onward passages to the United Kingdom by the Agents of the Colonial Government concerned at the expense of Colonial Government funds; and in cases where ex-internees were brought direct to the United Kingdom the War Office has agreed to meet the cost of passages up to the hand over dates from British Military Administration to Colonial Governments.
3. In the majority of cases however military transports carried ex-internees to a port of transhipment (mostly in India), and immediate onward passages were provided in Ministry of Transport Vessels on account of the Colonial Governments. Claims totalling £81,676.0.0d. in respect of these passages have been received from the Ministry. Some of these claims, however, included numbers of foreign nationals for which
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