The Archive · 1940

Funds for British

Colonies Passed — White Paper on Policy For Extended Aid Under Colonial Trust Praised SPECIAL TO THE "N.CDN" — London, Feb

The House of Commons adopted the Colonial and Middle Eastern services supplementary estimates, including the following new expenditure; £30,000 for additional administration and mili expenses in British £15,000 for air raid shelters in Malta; £58,000 for military roads an Kenya; £126,000 for administration and road improvement in Transjordan.

The Colonial Secretary, Mr. Mal-calm Ma denied the suggestion, which he said had sometimes been made, thet British-protected. persons in Somaliland had been recruited for service with foreign forces.

The military expenditure there, was "entirely concerned with the Anglo-Japanese Pact Reds at Gates of Viipuri

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