The size of expenditures required ior British policing of Palestine was revealed by Mr. MacDonald in a written reply in the House of Commons yesterda The extra east of maintaining army units in Palestine, over and above the cost of keeping them jat their normal stations, is estimated at £1,700,000 during 1938- he wrote.
It was impossible for him to furnish figures for the total cost of military forces in Palestine, but he gave £11,000 as the additional cost to date of the Air Force, over the normal expenditure for 1938-39.
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