CO129-622-4 War damage compensation- requisitioned railway stores and materials 28-1-1949 - 16-2-1950 — Page 58

[601B] Wt. 36325/814 50m. 1/49 C.N.Ld, 748

C. O.

Mr. Radford 3/2/49

Mr..

Wallace 7/2 s

Mr.

54447/5/49

Permt. U.S. of S.

Parly. U.S. S.

Minister of State

Secretary of State

8.249

DRAFT A.

120/Overseas/300 (I. of L.)

58.

Mr.

Mr.

Your Reference......

DRAFT.

COLONEL G. V. SEYMOUR,

WAR OFFICE.

For Mr. Wallace's signature.

Omit in Spig

[Dear

Dear Seymour

Copy of draft savingram with encl. (1) only

FURTHER ACTION.

(1)

(Drage. B)

Thank you for your letter of

28th January, 1949, about the claim

by the Hong Kong Government in

respect of railway materials

requisitioned in 1947.

2. I enclose a draft of a

Savingram we are proposing to send to

Hong Kong giving details of the

settlement of the War Supplies Board

and Kowloon-Canton Railway (British

Section) claims which you are

prepared to recommend and raising

certain points in connection with the

Government

Chinese claims.

3. As regards Item 3, since evidence

has now come to light which shows

that Hong Kong did supply at least some

"missing parts" it seems to us that the

proposed settlement of Item 3, which

includes no payment at all for missing

parts supplied by Hong Kong, must,

unless you would wish now to suggest

a payment for these rissing parts, be

termed an "interim" settlement. Our

Savingram