CO129-622-6 Claims of War Supplies to Eastern Group Supply Council 21-1-1949 - 23-12-1949 — Page 62

Group Supply Council; these claims are

referred to in paragraph 2 (Category A)

of Mr.Whyatt's semi-official letter of

4th June to Mr.Williams No. 116/470.

My telegram under reference deals

with Category "A" claims for stores

supplied to the Government of India, costing

in all $3,410,744 (£213,171), referred to

1948 in your despatch No. 169 of 17th July, 1947.

I assume no payment has yet been

received from the Government of Burma

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in respect of the Category A claim amounting

to 105,206 (£6,575) referred to in the same.

despatch, and I am communicating with other

Departments to see if it is possible for

any settlement of this claim to be effected.

In the same despatch you also referred to a

Category A claim against the Government of Singapore for $929,384 (£58,086) which was

being dealt with direct with that Government,

and I assume that no action on my part is

required on this claim.

3. I turn now to the claims (Category"B)

relating to stores which were in process

of manufacture, but were not actually shipped or delivered to godown. The amount of such

claims on account of orders placed on behalf

of the Eastern Group Supply Council is given

in your despatch No. 163 of 27th June 1947

as $7,748,986 (£484,312). In my despatch No.400

of the 24th December 1947, paragraph 4, I

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