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Administration, supplies required by the civil population to a
standard necessary to prevent disease and unrest
and to the extent necessary to ensure that the Commander is not
hampered in his operations. Sufficient supplies will be
demanded for 6 months for the whole of Malaya. In addition you
will demand additional supplies in the form of Inducement Goods
for military labour or for labour employed directly for military
purposes should you consider it necessary to do so to ensure proper
supplies of labour. Other necessary supplies for the civil
population of the liberated territory during the period of Military
Administration may be procured by the Colonial Office and for these
you will provide such transportation and other facilities within your
Command as may be possible in the circumstances of the case. All
supplies for the civil needs of the territory for the periods
following the 6 months military provisions are being procured
through civil channels as a Colonial Office responsibility and for
these, also, you will provide such transportation and other
facilities within your Command as may be possible.
7.
It is the policy of His Majesty's Government that the
Administration of the territories in question should be transferred
to the responsibility of the C.0. as soon as possible as and in so
far as conditions are such as to enable the latter to function. It
will be for you to recommend when and in what areas such transfer
can take place without embarrassment to military operations bearing
in mind that so far as the Malayan mainland areas are concerned
(Excluding Singapore) it is likely to be impracticable for the
Colonial Office to take over responsibility until the whole of that
area can be so transferred. Subject to military exigencies, the
Government of the civil population during the period of Military
Administration in Malaya will be carried on in the various
administrative spheres in accordance with long-term policy which
the Colonial Office has in mind to pursue when it resumes
responsibility for the civil administration of the territory.
order that you may be aware of this policy and be in a position to
pursue it so far as circumstances and military considerations
permit, you will be supplied from time to time with long-term
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