SUBSTANTIAL GIFT
Federated Malay States
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i Received February 21, 7.30 p.m.)
RUGBY, February 20.
The Colonial Secretary. Lord Moyne, acknowledged from the Federated Malay States the sum of £-150.000 as a free gift. The money was raised by war taxation and additional customs duties from September to December, W-10.
He nlso announced that the Rajah of I’ttiflis, Hie smallest state in the Malay peninsula, lias given £17.500 as a
further contribution to Britain for war purposes.
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Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 127, 22 February 1941, Page 11
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