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a member of the liơng Kong Volunteer Befence Corpe or the Civil Defance Services, (1 mast discount his reference to "night fighting in Hong Kong* Me wuld have been too old to have taken any very setive part in the defence of the Colony albeit i have little d ubt he did what he ould.)
So far se omoɑrna ir, Ogden, he does sack to have been a member of the art,P. in Hong Kong. It in, however, not olear whetlɛr, as a member of the Chinese Baritime Customm, he wa ordinarily resident in the Colony. Tou may also like to know that we have learik. From the Foreign ofries that that Department understands thɛt it is, or was, the practice of the Chinese government to pay retiring members of the meritise Justame a lump sum
sufficiently large to purchase a renavnable pension, se have, of course, no information to show whether kr. Ügdan has received such a payment and it may be, since he has been invalided out and in the resent state of China, that he has not received any payment in respect of his service with the Chinese 6ɔve, nment.
In my letter of the 10th sugest you have the Colonial office view on any proposal to make ohattels grants to persons permanmtly resident outside the United Kingdom. I cannot help but feel that in special cases of this nature His Majesty's Goverment bae the lesser degree of responsibility and that the Coumənwealth Government might extend rather more g nerous help than the assistance board type of relief for which, aɛparently, only är. Allison has qualified, I believe the Board of Trede has not hesitated to take a generoan view of applications for chattels grants from widows now in this eɔuntry of imited Kingdom British subjɛots were the widows were nɔt theṇadivas of united Kingdom origin.
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