Provenance : Missions Committee

Group Title : Subject Files

Series Title : South China Mission - War Damage Claims

Date(s) : 1947 to 1948

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Item Description : This file contains details of a compensation claim for war damage and loss during World War Two to mission buildings and property in South China under the "Enemy Property Emergency Regulations, 1939".  A claim was also lodged with the Hong Kong Government for War Losses in that colony.

The correspondence includes: an itemised list and value of losses to mission buildings and property; correspondence with the public trustee (as custodian of enemy property); correspondence with the Colonial Secretariat, Hong Kong, including a declaration by the Hong Kong Government that no compensation claims will be paid from public monies.
 

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