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COPT OF TELEGRAM Prom Secretary of State to
Government of India, External Affaris
Department, Ko.3121 M, dated 29th
November, 1939.
Addressed by Secretary of State for
India to Government of India and
repeated to HoM.’s Minister at Kabul
and Governor of Burma, Defence
Department, No.565 M, and by Government
of India to Katmandu. Copies air-mailed
to Political Resident, Persian Gulf and
Political Agent, Bahrain.
Following from Ministry of Information for publicity.
Begins < Germans trying undermine financial confidence Britain
by pretending two ten thousand pounds gold shown in Bank of
England return constitutes British gold reserve. This Bank
reserve is merely negligible fraction of British gold reserve
held almost entirely by exchange,control. On outbreak of war
control took over two sixty millions of gold from bank to add
to its previous reserve available for support pound. French
Government has announced large increase in its foreign
exchange reserves since outbreak of war. British owned foreign
securities estimated value easily one thousand million pounds,
French also having foreign security holings compared with
which German holdings negligible. German exchange shown
utterly artificial by German government bringing political
pressure on Roumania to take payment in Reichsmarks at
fifty-six lei instead of forty. Germans continually issuing
new brands of currency for instance steuergutsohrine of which
compelled suspend issues by public diffidence- and later
military delivery bills. Ends .