CO129-622-4 War damage compensation- requisitioned railway stores and materials 28-1-1949 - 16-2-1950 — Page 19

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final value attributed to shipments of Chinese-owned material.

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#oraure hs7 -2. The issing invice To, 05, now seat, appears to us at first sight to be on a par with the other invoicos in respect of which or Office have offered & settle.ent of £185,847, but you will wish to coardder it. The future of these claims is beginning: to appear wcertain with the break-up of the lationalist Govora eat; in this connection you will have seon fras our telegram No.1078 the effort which after discuseion with Past in your F.1 Branch we have ugrestel

should be made to get Kwok interested in t.ose claims; this

Deus & forlorn hope, but it is pos ible that we say unt be able to asko an offor quickly on this invoice 005, if any offer is to bede.

4. + ararams 10 – 12. The invoices 09, 010, ami 011, now produced in support of the Chinese claís for nearly one

dllion ouls ørely imlicute what we hau already understoni to be the nature of the cleda; d there se as no ground for admitting this clais to be valid either against the United

instos or the long Kong Government. e sh Lid propise that the "hilase CoveraLeut se told so if they raise it again; if you and the other interested depart onts agree, there aGLS point in discussing the claim any further at rescit. pregue that should the Chinese Comanist Coveruent inherit the clai. and raise it, the unaser would be the same;

doubt the Foreign Office vill let us know if they dissout from this view.

Sa