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' 85.
Extract from Letter from Secretary, Army Department, Government of India,
to Secretary, Military Department, India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. , No. 17161/General’
dated 16th November 1917.
13. Ceylon Sanitary Company.
The Government of Ceylon, with the approval of the War Office and the
Secietaiy of^ State for the C olonies, has undertaken to raise, equip, and
maintain at its own expense a Sanitary Company to be known as ‘‘The
Ceylon Sanitary Company,” for service in Mesopotamia. The pay of the
Company will be issued by the Indian Accounts Department and the financial
adjustment of the pay and all other expenses incurred in connection with
the Company will be effected directly between the Governments of India and
Ceylon.
86 .
War Office to India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. .
121/Overseas/3279 (F. 1 a). War Office,
Sir, 24th November 1917.
1 am commanded by the Army Council to inform you that thev have
accepted, for service.in Mesopotamia, a sanitary company furnished by
Ceylon. The Colony agreed to bear the cost of initial equipment, transport
to and from Mesopotamia, pay, rations, separation allowance and non-effective
charges. Any other expenses will be borne by Army funds.
The Colony further agreed to make direct adjustment with the Govern
ment of India in respect of services for which the Colony has accepted
liability, and the Governor of Ceylon cabled on 24th August last that he
was making the necessary arrangements with the Government of India, and
requested the Colonial Office to inform your Department.
I am to request that instructions may be issued to tlfe Indian financial
authorities that the charges recoverable from Ceylon shall be excluded as
far as practicable from the Indian War Accounts presented to this Depart
ment ; and that in so far as any such charges necessarily fall against
Imperial funds in the first instance (e.g., in the case of issues of rations from
Army stocks) the amounts may be recovered from Ceylon and credited to
this Department through the War Accounts.
1 am, &c.,
The Under Secretary of State * B. B. Cubitt.
for India.
87.
Telegram from Secretary of State to Controller of War Accounts,
Delhi, 27th November 1917.
Your telegram dated 2nd November, 3172 A.B. Credits should be
shown in Classified Accounts under Head 2 (5) Miscellaneous.
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War Office to India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. .
121/3/767 (F. 1a). War Office,
Sir, 27th November 1917.
I am commanded by the Army Council to acquaint you that a
telegram, of which a decoded copy is enclosed, has been received in this
Department from the General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Mesopotamian
Force. The Council would like to receive particulars of the cases referred
to in which the Foreign Department of the Government of India has
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