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of polices' obligation but to promote the Officer entitled.
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on 27.11.1941 (less than a month prior to the outbreak of
acific war (8.12.41), Hong Kong Police Special Memo No. 50 of 1941
eued, this further safeguarded the right of the Officer who
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was fi for promotion, (copy attached at 17-2).
Kong Police General Order dated 9.11.1945 still further assurance was giwn to safeguard our rights, (copy attached at /7-1).
It is history now, the fact that when Hong Kong was
aptured by the Japanese the members of the Force in the Colony
were interned up to the cessation of hostilities.
On release from internment we were repatriated, most
proceeding to the United Kingdom where, on arrival, each received
a letter from the Secretary of State, the Right Honourable Mr.
G.H. HALL (now Viscount Hall), copy attached at
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This letter, if nothing else, fully assures the Pre-ar Officer
that his "contract" would not be violated, also those assurances
are not worth the paper upon which they are written and it seems
that our attempt to have the said assurances applied has proved
futile, hence the reason why I wished to see you when in Hong Kong,
of this you already know, and we are looking to you Sir, to see
that that which we have lost meantime will be restored to us and
to be retrospective from at least the 1st. January 1946, a
reasonable date although we should contingewithout interruption
from 8.12.1941.
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Whilst on recuperation leave we learned that Officers from
the United Kingdom and Shanghai Forces were being recruited and sent
to Hong Kong, of this there is no complaint, but it was rather
ironical to learn on our return that not only were they on higher
pay, but senior in rank retrospective to service.
Several Officers made representations to the Colonial
Office, and early in 1946 a number of us were lettered from the
Colonial Office to hold ourselves in readiness to proceed to Hong Kong as "specially selected Officers" to assist in the taking over
process of the Civil Government from Military Government
copy of
this letter attached at
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