BRITISH FORCES
.MORE EXPENDITURE REQUIRED LONDON, Feb. 13.. What the Manchester ' Guardian calls “two rather staggering supplementary estimates” have been, published for the services, amounting to £70.000,000. The Army requires £50,000,000 and the Navy £20,000,000. Payment of war gratuities and post-war credits to servicemen and women during the current financial year is one reason given, while another major item is the Army’s need for 65,000 more men “mainly .in respect of Indian troops serving in garrisons outside India.” The formation of the Polish Resettlement Corps is expected to cost £14,000,000, and there has been a loss of £17,000,000 by “the impossibility of reducing the Army’s tasks overseas as rapidly as had been hoped.”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 15 February 1947, Page 6
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