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DRAFT.
Lt.Col.R.D.Walker,0.B.E.,M.C.
White Cottage,
Apple Grove, Aldwick Bay, Bognor Regis, Sussex.
lathe at Nov 12.1949 thenal to (!!)
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FURTHER ACTION.
Your Reference...
For Mr. Hall's signature.
16-2-50
Ansid (1) on '50
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 War 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 which 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
reliable evidence, which is available.
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 eventually delivered on
board ship. The Kowloon-Canton Railway (British Section)
have claimed for the cost of stripping, assembling, sorting,
making-good and marking these 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 in having missing materials manufactured and in
this connection I quote from a recent communication of the
/Governor's..
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