CO129-621-12 War damage compensation 19-5-1949 - 7-10-1949 — Page 16

Amiralty or in the Colonial (frice of the circumstances in which the vessels were requisitioned and were subsequently lost or destroyed. It is not possible, therefore, for any action on the clains to be taken in this country. I am, accordingly, arranging for a copy of this correspondence to be sent to the Hong Kong Coverment.

4. Ieturn the enclosures to your letter of 19th ny but for convenience of reference by the Colonial

Secretariat on receipt of a copy of this letter, I take the opportunity of sumarising hereunder the individual claims:-

8.S. *Kinshan"

3.3. "Paighan"

Requisitioned and subsequently ordered to be scuttled; subsequently mised by the Japanese; present whereabouts

unknown.

equisitioned for use as a depot shi and subsequently sunk b enery baŋbing.

s.s. "Chungchun* Believed to have been dulled by Colony's forces,

s.s. "Tai ling" Loaned to liong Kong Government for use

by Hong Kong K.X.V.2. and believed subsequently to have been sunk by Government.

8.S. "ai Hing" Requisitioned by long Kong Goverment

and believed subsequently to have been scuttled by order of Govermont.

Yours sincerely,

(Sgd)

J.BOURN.

Private ecretary.

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