CO129-627-4 Argyle Street explosion- correspondence on claims and enquiries 1-6-1946 - 31-7-1951 — Page 11

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point (see paragraph 2 of (4) on 55342/49) but in fact agreement with Malaya had not yet been completely tied up and it is now clear that on this particular point Malaya have never accepted the proposal.

J. Wallan

30.9.49.

m Wallace

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to describe commercial

arrangments, it reams

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"transactions in

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they

thest what

in contemplation concerned finance

ordinary

on the

reuse & did not embaly claims cobial might arine through tortions acts.

Freed

no more than this. The unlitary axsumal fuld responsibility for alumistration & the several verice of antennt from the time the Japanese xurrentenat till the time the Colonial fost

was reestablihal. In the interacts of everyone Colony military of civilian the unlitery chare of this quantity of affaire could do so. Through then negligence

then negliguce an aflosion took place with consequential damage. To ans -disputes that

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a ala begitented.

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