https://omeka.uottawa.ca/examination-unit/files/original/b9935a9a6e4f2d04aff4737b901a8953.jpg b7a553456bfdcec3a9eef5b1af561e51 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Reel 17427 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document of the 251 French (700 individuals including the 10 men) are employed by the police and the municipality in our situation, who have gone into the service of the Chinese authorities. The latter pay them what amounts to about 40,000,000 CHR dollars a year. This sum, although very considerable, does not in any way correspond to the cost of living, which has risen 325% in the last 10 months. The Embassy and the Consulate are constantly trying to get salary increases for our compatriots, but so far without any appreciable success. Regretfully and with extreme prudence I felt obliged, beginning 1 January last, to make supplementary payments to them —so — to live. These payments, taken out of the reserve fund set up in view of this situation which the prolongation of the war made inevitable, have exceeded since I say a monthly sum of 2,000,000 CHR dollars, which can only continue to increase. At this rate, it is not difficult to foresee the time when these extra resources will be used up. 6. As the Department can see, our authorities in Shanghai have therefore as their essential task, the assurance, until repatriation, of the existence of the French people who were here only to serve the concession, and who aspire only to reenter France at the first opportunity. To take care of that we have at our disposal 40,000,000 a year which the Chinese Government pays and the reserve fund which the crisis devours at so rapid a rate that I should not be astonished to see it exhausted as early as the beginning of 1945. I have tried so far to resort as little as possible to financial aid from the State. The department, by granting 1 August last the sums necessary for the service of liquidation, for the consular police, for the College, and for the Ecole Franco-Chinoise; the Ministry of Colonies, by attaching to the occupation (7 corps?) the Tonkinese Supplementary Battalion (which entails expense for the mother country, but an economy in the budget of Indo-China) have reduced by one-third the expenses I meet with our local resources only. Likewise the Government, by according the municipal personnel substantial transfer facilities, has made a gesture greatly appreciated by our compatriots. The retrocession of our concession has, however, involved only a minimum of expenditure for the State, more than largely compensated by the constituting of a considerable real estate (7 fund?). 7. Although the ......? x Part 6 (not numbered as such) same number a French: Galisse des oeuvres b French: supplétif Inter 27 May 44 (2) Rec'd 27 May 44 Trans 14 June 44 Rec'd Ottawa June 24th; 1944 File D-5195 Examination Unit, National Research Council, June 24th, 1944. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Reel 17427 - Page 1536 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived https://image-uab.canadiana.ca/iiif/2/69429%2Fc02n4zh9f41k/full/max/0/default.jpg Description An account of the resource Quality Score: unknown Needs Review: No OCR Confidence: 0% Character Count: 2681 Word Count: 453 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg Language A language of the resource fra Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1941/1945 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Public Domain 1944 1945 France Ottawa Shanghai