CO129-628-13 Compensation- requisitioned railway materials and stores 1-2-1950 - 30-4-1951 — Page 59

Saving.

54447/5/50

From the Secretary of State for the Colonies.

To the Officer Administering the Government of

Date

20

March, 1950

No....

284 Saving.

x

HONG KONG

57.

2.

Your savingram No. 974 of 25th November 1949

Requisitioned Railway Materials

With reference to paragraphs 3

savingran concerning Item 3 of the Kowloon

6 of your

Canton Railway

(British Section) Claim, Lieutenant Colonel R.D. Walker has now been consulted about the preparation of the 600

wagons involved in this item. I enclose for your information a copy of a letter which has been received from

Lieutenant Colonel Walker, from which you will see that he supports your view that materials were supplied in Hong Kong to make good the wagons.

3.

In paragraph (4) of nis letter

Lieutenant Colonel Walker mentions various possible sources in Ilong Kong of evidence about the 600 wagons. I should be grateful if you would investigate these sources and inform me of any fresh evidence which comes to light. This subject will, unless a satisfactory settlement is reached on the basis of the information available, be for discussion at the forthcoming financial conference. It is therefore desirable that all relevant information may be as complete as possible before the conference starts.

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