FORCES IN INDIA.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 302, 22 December 1933, Page 7

FORCES IN INDIA.

RECOMMENDATIONS ACCEPTED. (British Official Wireless.) (Received 9.80 a.m.) RUGBY, December 21'. The Prime Minister stated in Parliament that the British and Indian Governments have agreed to accept the recommendations of the advisory tribunal which reported last January regarding ; the question of payments made ,by India for tho recruitment and training of the British military and air force personnel on the Indian establishment, and also India's counter-claim that the British Government should make a contribution toward the cost of the defence of India. In respect of the matters regarding which the tribunal was not unanimous, the Governments will act upon majority recommendation. The Prime Minister said this involved the acceptance by the Government of' India of capitation charges calculated in accordance with the tribunal's suggestion as a legitimate charge on Indian revenue. On the other hand the payment to India of a grant from British revenues was accepted. The amount of this grant w.ould be £1,500,000 annually. This would include the annual subsidy .of £130,000 hitherto paid from Army funds toward the cost of transport of British troops to and from India, the continuance of which was one of the matters referred to the tribunal.