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TELEGRAM 3.
EXCLAIR.
حمد هنر
From: Governor,Hong Ko
To: Secretary of State. (No. 1108).
nated: 21.9.46.
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Your tele "ras 7.961. Sall Craft. We were in red toet with the closure or te P. P. F. base at SveneTY, the Royal Navy could not remsin responsible for the maintenance of t..e craft allocated to us to implement the Admiralty Comitasat end, the Colonial Government (i5 ot Bree to arrabitu ts for
As the sintenance, the craft wc 16 le afspesed of elcer nere. atter was urgent, and we co là not afford to lose these craft, we agreed, as stated in nara.4 of Commouore's signal referred to by vou, but wita The explicit condition that, we considered Añnirelty financially responsible and we lù take ur the question later. Our agreement is therefore irrelevant to the cuestion of Micancial responsibility, which re consider rests on the Adiralty, on the rounds stated in our telegram V.723.
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