I compare

with

8

the followup

Voter for othu diaste

2337,000

Educatin

Medical.

251600o

This

illustrater

the difficulty,

not only

only in

4.18 of combs,

n the

maintenance.

the

the

virtual impossibility of

Expansion, of sonal services

while exceptional defence

expenditure

is required of

Groot & Cold which have

an

importance

the

strategical scheme of the

Empire.

We

must appro

ore

express appreciation,

Slee

as

proposes, &

sand copies to

ето

the Raps mentioned.

24-7

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9

It makes one

feel utterly sick,

on

You may

like to see this. We can

We can only appone,

hat ito a shocking Kal Bhave trapend

M such

purely unproductive services, the

Efficacy polish san is highly perbematical

Am

24.7.39.

There is further add-

proin. of $5,746

for ARP. at (43) on 53533b9.

4

as proposed.

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25.7.39

11 to Hong Kong. Sec. 10 And. 9 - AUG 1999

12

To W.O.

13

To a.m.

14

To Admy.

> (w/ 10+11)

Bib.

18.8.39.

15

To O.D.6.

16

To A.R.P.

17

Jo d.l.

B/c.

Note

Me Williamson, 40, asked for informi ation about the local manufacture of qas masks at Stk. There was application for the export of 10 tone of activated carbon from The U.K._ for this

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age 9

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purpose but, in view

of

The Home

10

demand, it was unlikely that it could

be granted.

After

could be

a

prolonged search all that

discovered was:

(a) 2 gas mask factories exist at in

are mentioned on

I.K. They

p.28 of

as existing Mer Butters's report (1700/D/39,5.8.D.) but That is all we know about them, except that one of them is owned by the Safety Industrial Co., Ltd. Kontoon!

(b) The following corres, indicates that

(ظ)

local manufacture was contemplated in 1937, but that we deprecated it except to cover emergency

period during which there wa be liability of interruption of shipping comming."

§4(4)0 of (1)

85 of (4)..

Min. of 8/1/38

Gyder Gert

(1)

on

4

53871/37

32071/1/28

Mins. of 2013/1/38 on } 53071/1/37

800

(c) itk. then decided to ardy (tree issue to 100,000 respirators in the U.IL. for personnel Engaged on essential services their fam- ilies. Others were to be considered. Later ((2) on 53871/1/37). Only 13,200 could

be supplied at once

but the remainder were hoped for in 6 months. It was now Sept., 493d. ((10) on 5-3871/1/38).

(d) It was thought that' 100,000 res pirators could be sold in the Col. in addition to the above, they were indented

in the UK.

foran 9/5/39 ((4) on

of them (about 70,000)

out now,

I believe

53871/1/39). Some are on the way

are on

The police with regard

to these sales is mentioned in § 12 of (1).

(e)

Nothing more some ever

to have

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