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

1. Col. G. V. Seymour (w.0)

M Wallace

At (1)

art

referred

28-1-49, 2

the copies of

documents

t

in

my

mmute of

26-1.49

the 1948 file.

4

submit

XX

draft

savii gram

to Hong Kong setting

out

the

War office

proposals for

settlement of the

Was Supplies Board

and

Kowloon Canton Rail way

way (British

Section) claims

and raising

certain

Points

in

connection

with the chinese claim.

9

abo

subunit

draft

s.o.

letter to

Col. Seymour

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seeking w.o.

draft

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ence

in

communicatin

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to Hong

Kong.

Ela yord

3/2

tothe Win fine,

1. It will be seen that our long letter at (43) on the 1948 file has in (47) on the same file brought results i.e. a definite proposal for settlement of the Hong Kong Government part of these claims, which is what we pressed for in paragraph 5 of (43).

The War Office.

2. In (51) on the 1948 file we pointed out that the proposed settlement of Item 3 (by far the biggest item in the Kowloon-Canton Railway British Section claim) fell so far short of the amount claimed that

we

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