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of directness of the help suggested. Their relative importance can be judged from what is said about them in the preceding pages of this report. They are as follows:-
Recommendations.
(1) A much closer relationship should be established between the Govern- ments of India and Burma and that of China, both as a method of ensuring future relations of friendship, and with the object of giving present help to China (paragraphs 7 and 124).
(2) The outstanding boundary questions between Burma and China should be disposed of so as to facilitate railway construction and to avoid future friction (paragraph 7).
(3) As far as possible British influence should be used in Chungking towards a reorganisation of the Chinese Government personnel upon the lines of getting rid of the old-fashioned, corrupt and inefficient members of the Government (paragraph 48).
(4) An immediate cash loan should be granted to support the stabilisation
fund and so avoid the collapse of the Chinese dollar (paragraph 60). (5) Consent should be given to the setting up of a joint Sino-British aviation factory so as to enable British civil aircraft to find an outlet in the Far Eastern markets after the war, and also to give assistance to the Chinese (paragraph 64).
(6) Immediate arrangements should be made for the construction of the Burma section of the Yunnan-Burma railway. From the many points of view above explained, this is both urgent and important (para- graphs 74, 85).
(7) If an arrangement has not already been arrived at, immediate steps should be taken to permit lorries of both Burmese and Chinese nationality to make the through journey from Lashio to Kunming (paragraph 78).
(8) The Bhamo-Lashio road should be improved so as to permit and encourage the use of the Irrawaddy River for traffic through to China (para- graph 78).
(9) Facilities should be given for the Chinese Government to set up a hand truck factory at Lashio, or near the Burma border. Alternatively it might be organised by the Burmese Government with facilities for the Chinese to avail themselves of it (paragraph 79).
(10) A few highly qualified British advisers should be made available to
assist the Chinese Government (paragraphs 93, 104, 125).
(11) Export certificates should be granted especially for goods ordered by the Chinese Government for the political reasons stated (paragraph 93). (12) Encouragement and assistance should be given to Chinese students to acquire technical education and experience in Great Britain (paragraph 97).
(13) Encouragement and assistance should be given in the setting up of a voluntary British organisation to assist the Chinese Industrial Co-operatives (paragraph 100).
(14) Assistance in animal husbandry should be given to China, especially by the sending of a few good breeding males of various kinds of stock (paragraph 104).
(15) Closer relations should be maintained between Empire Agricultural research stations, especially in India and Burma, and their counter- parts in China (paragraph 104).
(16) Technical and financial assistance should be provided for the malaria
research proceeding in West Yunnan (paragraph 117).
(17) Efforts should be made to bring about a more understanding attitude towards the Central Government in China among British nationals on the eastern seaboard and Hong Kong, with a view to assisting future trade relations (paragraphs 112, 128).
(18) Everything possible should be done to co-ordinate British and American
policy in the Far East (paragraph 132).
(19) It is advisable that if possible the British Ambassador to China should
visit Sinkiang (paragraph 147).
(20) An offer should be made to the Government of Sinkiang to assist in their educational problems by giving facilities for technical university education to their young men in Indian universities (paragraph 153).
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