CO129-448 - Governor Sir May - 1918 [4-6] — Page 349

347

WAS

-32 702' ads guitatRiLiDA 2001790 gds

-duž in- gestimmc" ejnanazky," fet▼ sdt ten day -

II Jr nemt 10 thour $1917 kar

t

felmalet e TICK

*

„JNATSTU

mr $10 test talt ti

.B

nololvenų atk to cultro | 92 1951.non ut Diabā silt g

fort to athomertaga Lotiv eft pct spanned

Tot effettua agitis ext ayor Jerm Jaotusvoð Lakas get

titizonte Insof att ni banker

་ ༣་

+

BARO TSAT

- Ifatiuenu ble erit of see it antiq Legie. eð jaur mellemichut Jeffè moltłacą sift of fost al doed

grofon sy

IT feudo- act cað er tea

+I geluk of bid fnsmoelg midong off to znižasti sɗT You Bivon 13 trmch ade 11 amitten Aliq-la doum bluca

+

Settra

seduzentpet

·TIEBBuban „Irer szám chut todø MINTIAITA

!

Hazet of SIP:

tom an ti teft noltentano s'abE” „TA

+

Ile Jade Bales IraimbÅ sit 4 bles Namk 10 „tual

hvement Ienoíuð os notis ad kiwari: «onateless pictunog

A

Male

T

*

bed tranuntoqua eʼnoeren

to notte:

JE NO

eron 30 srida agudary,10#!

sgannet delt if gaini

17861 gotegido e Bar oʻy Isrofed tødt boodametru si

hog: Sotlost fadiniteb mosd

.BiḥAT MOTi noisezteÍLAR

mato em ant aqlfs sidinmoq

-

by avions of grant*:**

audi aku j 19610 uk sung gt12

aim fotod to onetaryl- tead sit d

-eiter galiter sæosts a of ball godt was namin ni

Jery ofthou Lazerne got yiizeƒ007-

-

.Y TOO

and export figures and decided as to :-

(a). The vital requirements which could not be reduced.

Articles in general demand which could be largely reduced.

(b).

(c).

Articles which could be reduced to a minimum,

He had seen the Superintendent of Imports and Exporte who could only give him the necessary figures in respect of five months in the present year, and these must be made to do. With these figures they could eliminate everything not essential to the feeding of the population and to the main industries, such as ship-building and sugar manufacturing. On the recently established Calcutta and Bombay runs he had, in the absence of Hongkong figures, suggested arbitrary percentages of space for Singapore and Hongkong respectively, and he understood that Hongkong were not satisfied. He therefore asked for figures on which to decide whether the Hongkong representation were justified.

t

The Committee would find, after elimination under the a, b, and a heads that a large amount of tonnage could be spared. The Admiralty were going to take more ships. If statistics were prepared the Committee would be able, in consulation with the Commodore, to decide what ships should go. Trampe, which were of no use to the Admiralty on account of the difficulty of repairing break-downs, would be very useful on the China coast where repairs were easily effected. No doubt the liveli- -hood of the Chinese world be seriously affected but, as go many ships had been taken already the taking of a few more would not make much difference, The Commodore was prepared to requisition ships to replace ships taken from essential runs, as in the case of the Burrumbeet. Later, when all the ships were under requisition and those left on the coast were con- -trolled by the Givernment through the Committee, it would not

br

be

2