54447/5/49
The Church House,
Great Smith Street,
London, S..1.
February, 1950
16
Dear Colonel Walker,
[I am writing to seek your assistance regarding a claim which has been made by the Hong Kong Government against the War Office, arising out of the requisitioning of certain railway materials belonging to the Kowloon-Canton Railway in 1941. The materials concerned were requisitioned by the Hong Kong Government Lar Supplies Board for the Director General of Transportation, Middle East and although it has been possible to arrive at satisfactory settlements of most of the claims in · respect of these materials, the particular matter with shich I am taking the liberty of troubling you at this very late date, has not proved possible of settlement owing to the lack of sufficient re- liable evidence.
It appears that railway wagon materials held in stock by the Kowloon-Canton Railway on behalf of the Chinese Ministry of Communications were requisitioned and that as a result, 600 wagons were ventually delivered on board ship. The Kowloon-Canton Tailway (British Section) have · claimed for the cost of stripping, assembling, sorting, making-good and marking thses 600 wagons and subsequently delivering them on board ship. The difficulty really turns on whether or not these wagons were in fact "made good". Hong Kong maintains that considerable expenditure was incurred
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LIEUTENANT COLONEL R. D. WALKER, 0.B.E., M.C.,
WHITE COTTAGE,
APPLE GOVE
ALDWICK BAY
BOONOR R GIS.
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