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8th February, 1949.
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PRIVATE OFFICE 10 FED INTO
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Year. Crunch Jones,
I enclose statement from Mr. F. Buckle who is now employed by the Education Authority, Hong Kong.
Mr. Buckle has recently been at home and living with his wife, whose family are constituents of mine, at 3, Shipley Terrace, Cotherstone, North Yorkshire. He returns to Hong Kong in the near future, and is due to retire in 1950.
I had an interview with Mr. Buckle last week-end, and learned from him that all his worldly possessions, the accumulation of many years, were lost in Hong Kong. After his release from Japanese imprisonment he returned to Hong Kong and was compelled to live in one room in a local hotel, and forced to use capital merely to exist.
Mr. Buckle submitted a claim for the loss referred to in the correspondence, but it was turned down on the 2nd September, 1948, by the Colonial Secretariat in Hong Kong.
I shall be grateful if you will give sympathetic consideration to this case, and shall we glad if I may be informed exactly what the position is, and if there are any steps that Mr. Buckle should take in order to receive some compensation for the losses which he incurred whilst in the public service.
Yours sincerely,
Tar. Dugdale
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The Rt. Hon. A. Creech Jones, M.P., Secretary of State for the Colonies, Church House
Great Smith Street, S.W. 1.
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