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A meeting of the Vital Requirements Comed de ha in
the Council Chamber at 10 a.m. on Thursday the 18th. January, 1918.
PRESENT:
His Excellency the Governor, the Commodore, the Colonial Secretary, Colonel Thomson, Lieutenant 01dmen, and all the members of the Committee and
Sub-Committee.
1.
Colonel Thomson said that he had discussed the situation very fully with the members individually of the Committee and the Sub-Committee, particularly as regards the question of bringing under Government control the Vessels on the China Coast which remained outside such
control.
2.
He had read Lieutenant Oldman's report and
he regarded it as a very fair review. It was natural that i there should be disagreement regarding Lieutenant Oldman's recommendations, but the question of the taking of more Teesels from the coast was not at the present urgent,
3.
He had proposed to the British Government an arrangement by which Dutch ships would take coal and sugar from Jave to Calcutta and Rangoon and would ship rice tack to Java. He had now received a telegram that this was provisionally approved for individual voyages. this
approval were confirmed, the situation in Indidwould be
Indidwould greatly relieved. There was no intention to exploit the
China Coast for the benefit of India. As far as he could
foresee, no further vessels would be required from the
China Coast for India and Mesopotamia unless certain
larger vessels, now on the Bombay-Suez run, were taken to
run in home waters; and provided that there was no largeƒ
increase
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