CO129-624-14 Finances- relief stores- Hangover stores and Siamese free rice 1-7-1948 - 31-12-1951 — Page 76

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4.

As regarŝp

72

#ios" included in itsa

A (1) above, I would refer to my savingram No. 182 or

9th August, 1948 enclosing a mosorandum on this subject,

to your reply Ro. 92 of

Since that

Monoe took place, further ocaɛiveration has been

given to this probles which for convenience is sumaris

below, with

addition

osrtain aspects which

appear to be relevant.

shortly after the murrender of

Thailan:, supplies of råos estimated to be worth £1,707,600

btsined from that territory without payment

shipped to India, simlaya, zong Kong

territories, Inionesis and the /hilippåns,

smount

skippes to Hong Kong was worth £516,700. It is sastmed

that

mle in

rice was sold and presembly the proceeds of

ng lọng are included in the total of items

© (a) and (b) of para. 3 above, mubject to any further

information you may be

give as a result of

tin

enquiry at the end of that paragraph.

that

proons: had been pai: over to HakoGo, it was

stated in my savingras of 9th August 1948, that the

proceeds shoulɛ/

distributed, not

basis of actual

receipts, but in the anae proportions as the I.5.7.0.

allocation of rice from D.Ä. Asa sources to

OGNOSITEL,

It would obviously not be fair

territory shoul: be oredited with

value of the

aucee rice actually received by that territory, since the

distribution amongst the above territories mas purely a

matter of convenience at the time and ma not the basis

of may entitlement of each territory to food supplies at

that time, or on the basis of entitlement to

of

reparations from Thailand.

On the basis of 1.

allocations,

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