CO129-622-3 War damage compensation- requisitioned railway stores and materials 19-1-1948 - 31-12-1948 — Page 59

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(6) on '47 file.

Para. 2 of (21/24)

(21/24)

As this

in London who, in turn, referred them

to the War Office for settlement".

reads, it certainly appears to refer to the

total of both types of claims, but if this

is the intended meaning it seems to be based

on a misunderstanding somewhere, for the only

Chinese claims referred to us by the Hong

Kong Government and, by us in turn referred to

you are the claims for £323,689. 10s. referred

to you in Scarlett's letter to Morrison of

the 23rd April 1947, which, with the additional

£29,769 said to be covered by voucher 005,

makes up the total claim of £353,458. 10s.

for materials actually requisitioned.

As Scarlett said in his letter of the

20th July, we shall make enquiry from Hong

Kong about these claims for over £900,000, but,

as he also pointed out in paragraph 6 of the

same letter, we really cannot approach the

Governor with this enquiry without saying

something about the Hong Kong Government's own

claims against H. M. G.

It is

5. This brings me to my second point.

correctly noted in (c) above that at the

meeting on the 12th August I enquired the

position about the Hong Kong Government claims.

I understood from your reply that the claims

were not disputed in principle and that I

might soon expect to hear from you about them.

These claims were lodged, in

(5) on '47 file.

Sir Mark Young's despatch No. 80 of the, 10th

April 1947 and the fact is that up to date,

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