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15th instant whether units will require to be sent in relief,
so it is necessary to give them 6 months' notice to arrange
for the furloughs of Native Officers and Men prior to
embarkation for foreign service.
It will be within Hr Harcourt's resalisation that
the provision made in Army Estimates for the current year
was based on the assumption that these troops would have
been returned to India at the beginning of the financial
year. Exeess expenditure for their maintenance, at the
rate of 28,000 a month is thus already being incurred over
the provision made, In addition, the cost of relieving
the would be some £80,000 for transport and ether incidental
sharges. Further, the Government of India aske for an
undertaking that army funds will bear the travelling and
other sharges (possibly 88,000) incidental to the furlough
proposed new to be given to the unite warned for relief,
whether they eventually proceed to China or not.
The Army Council make no claim to be in a position
but
to forecast the probable sourse of events in China;
from such information w is at their disposal, it appears
improbable that there will be a general cessation of
Confrented as internal unrest within the next few years,
they now are with the necessity for an immediate and definite decision whether the additional troops are to
remain or return to India, it seoma to them that if withdrawal in new held to be impossible on the grounds dizolosed in the earlier correspondence, there is small
prospect
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