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Shipping Companies.

(II) That the whole cost of the elaborated scheme, including that of maintaining the Indian guards when not actually employed on board ship, should be borne by the Companies in proportion to their demands on it.

The Cabinet agreed

Subject to the concurrence of the Secretary of State for Foreign ffairs (who had not had time to consult his Department in regard to the Report, owing

to its having been circulated only on the previous

evening), to sanction a further extension of the pro-

vision of regular naval and military guards on the

conditions suggested by the Chiefs of Staff Sub-

Committee, and that in communicating the decision to the shipowners it should be made very clear that

there is a definite time limit to the continuance

of the extension.