Mr. Churchill issued on Monday a Colonial Office Estimate for
Mesopotamia and Palestine, amounting to £27,197,000, all of which has been already voted under the Army and Air Force Estimates. The military expenditure is to be £25,592,000. The expenditure for Mesopotamia, apart from the British forces, is estimated at £1,270,000, nearly half of which is for the relief of refugees. Palestine apparently pays its way, except for the garrison, but £180,000 is assigned to Trans- Jordania under the Emir Abdulla and £150,000 goes in undefined " Arabian subsidies." , In a memorandum Mr. Churchill stated that the Estimate represented a net saving of 079,000. The Cairo conference of officials recently held by him had decided to reduce the regular garrisons and to make more use of the Air Force and of native levies.
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