With Mr. D.W.G. Wass' compliments.
120/overseas/
300 DH.82/165/02
98
32
Treasury Chambers,
S.W.1.
13th August, 1948.
(20)
rear tuuseett,
Aur comments on your letter of 2nd July about the Chinese claims and counter claims are overdue; I am sorry about the delay.
Te note that you have examined the Chinese claim for materials requisitioned in long Fong in 1941, and that you are able to admit, so far, some £185,000 of the total claimed. Yon will, no doubt, be letting 120 know in due course how far your admission is acceptable to the Jardinc Engineering Company, actief on behalf of the Finistry of Communications.
Að regards the claim worth aproximately $150,000 against the Chinose Government for ront and daru.e to property in Kowloon, we feel that there can be no Soubt es to ultimate Chinese liability. on tse evidence available to us, however, we find it difficult to decide who should make the immediate payment to individual claimante. we are not quite clear, for instance, how it came about that the Chinese troops occupied these properties in the first place. erc they in any way carrying out military operations under the command of a British C.-in-0.7 08 the requisition by the British Military Administration carried out on benglf of the army, on behalf of the Supreme Cormander, or of the Chinese Covermenti It seems to me in all probability that, had a civil Covernment been in power at the time the troops were moved, it would have billed the Chinese Government direct1thout erploying the medium of the ar Office, and therefore that the
A.L. Bussott,
her office.
hitehall,
3.2.1
/hong Long /RODE
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