104
A statement has been received from a firm of Accountants
who examined the accounts of the Philippine Red Cross
Organization (part of the American National Red Cross). The
statement shows that the amounts were comprised of the following
items:
2(a) Civilian personnel
(i) Board and lodging
(complete lists of amounts paid
to individuals are given).
P. 77,996.03
(ii) Local transport
(no details)
P.
6,252.78
(iii) Equipment etc.
(no details)
P.
4.737.90
P. 88,986.71
3(a) Service Personnel
(i) Board and lodging
(complete lists of amounts paid to
individuals are given)
(ii) Local Transport (no details)
(iii) Equipment etc.
(no details)
P.117,397.75
P.
5,820.42
P. 4,418.49
P.127,636.66
Under existing authorities, I think we could accept as a charge to the Colonial Office Vote of Credit, Sections (1), and (2) of the statement, subject to agreement with Comptroller and Auditor General as to absence of vouchers (See T.C. 14/42). That leaves Sections 3, 4 and 5, and my proposal would be that as these appear to be chargeable to United Kingdom funds it hardly seems necessary to try and pursuade Admiralty and War Office to accept the appropriate shares whatever they may be. We cannot divide up 3(a) between the Admiralty and the War Office as the Accountant's list of recipients give no indication as to whether the families were those of Army or Naval Officers, and we have no details at all of items 3(b), 4(a) and 5(a) (b) (c) and (d). I admit that on the face of the statement Section 5 should be wholly charged to War Office funds especially item 5(a) although in the absence of any details it is probably impossible
for