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55178/15/50.

four lef.25/Lamngon/3461

20th February, 1950.

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#111 you plesse refer to your letter of the 11th February, and Humphreys-avies' letter of the 14th February, audressed to aŭdrord, on the question of the liebility of the

ervice

opertments to pay compensation in the case of denial n asures undertaken in the south Jast Asia Territories.

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2. In my letter of the 23rd Lesember (55178/15/45) to Sandford, of which you have a cop, 1 asid that I did not wish to intervene on the merits of the matter, and I confined zyaels then to trying to get the records streight on one particular polat. ...e have, however, bean following the subsequent correspondence, and are not entirely happy about its recent trends, ve are,

that la to Bay, a little apprehe...sive about the views expressed in the latest phase of the correspondence, namely that in all casca where equipment and goode were requisitioned for ase suxi were subsequently deɑled to the enemy, the claim would fall to be mot by the loonì Goverïment as a normal war damage less.

3. Cases of denial fɛll broadly under four heads :-

(a) goods which were destroyed in deaial to the enemy

without any formal requisitioning;

(b) goodo which were requisitioned for the purpose of

denying them to the energy and which were subaeque::tly deatroyed;

(o) goode requisitioned by the ervice @part/euta for

their own use, but which were destroyed before actuall being used in order to deny them to the enmay; snâ

(d) goods requisitioned by the service

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epartoonto for their own use and which were actually used by the Service Departmenta before being destroyed for us...ial purponies.

BIR TUAJ J. VASH, K.B.2., O.B.