CO129-622-6 Claims of War Supplies to Eastern Group Supply Council 21-1-1949 - 23-12-1949 — Page 64

element in the claim against the Government

of India amounts to $2,896,301 (£181,019)

and that against the R.A. F. Sin apore to

$45,320 (£2,833). No details of the claim

against DADOS, Hong Kong are specified

and it is therefore not clear whether this

is a Category "B" claim or a Category "C"

partakes

claim or patches of both categories. In

view of my comment above about Category "B"

claims you will appreciate that I should

not feel justified in further pressing

Category B any of these claims.

4. In paragraph 5 of my despatch No. 400

of the 24th December, 1947, I referred to the

claims (Category "C") relating to advances

made by local European firms to Chinese

contractors to assist the latter in purchasing

materials for manufacture.

(The amount of

these claims in respect of orders placed on

behalf of the Eastern Group Supply Council

is shown in your despatch No. 15 of the

28th January, 1948, to be 601,026 (£37,564).).

I said that I was inclined to the view that

these claims should be met up to 25% of the

amount involved. I very much regret, however,

to inform you that the Ministry of Supply are

unable to agree to any payment whatever on account

of this particular category of claims. I have

accordingly given this matter further careful

consideration to see whether, and if so to what

extent

(16) m 18895/17/47

(26/47)

(1) m 18895/17/48

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