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ANNEX

POINTS TO BE COVERED IN AN AGREEMENT OR AGREEMENTS WITH THE SUPREME ALLIED COMMANDER OR IN SUCH OTHER MATTER AS MAY BE SATISFACTORY TO THE GOVERNMEMT OF THE UNITED KINGDOM AND THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

The Siamese Government shall agree :

1. To assume responsibility for safeguarding, maintaining and restoring unimpaired Allied property, rights and interests of all kinds in Siam and for payment of compensation for losses or damage sustained.

2. To desequestrate Allied bauking and commercial concerns and permit them to resume business.

3. To hold all Japanese and other enemy property at the disposal of the Allies.

4. To co-operate in the apprehension and trial of persons accused of war crimes or notable for affording active assistance to Japan.

5. To hand over to the Allied Military Authorities all alleged renegades of Allied nationality.

6. For so long as may be necessary for the conclusion of all matters of military concern to the Allies arising out of the settlement of the war with Japan:

​(a) to place at the disposal of the Allied Military Authorities ports and free traffic facilities in and over Siamese territory, as required.

(b) to provide free of cost all other supplies and services for use in Siam and all Siamese currency that may be required by the Allied Military Authorities.

(c) to meet administrative requirements of Allied forces in Siam in respect of labour, use of industrial and transport enterprises, means of communication, power, fuel and other materials as requested by the competent Allied Military Authority in pursuance of his task.

(d) to negotiate an agreement granting judicial and other immunities for Allied forces in Siam similar to such agreements as have already been concluded by the Allies with one another.

7. To place Siamese merchant vessels primarily to meet the civil requirements of Siam under the direction of the competent Allied Military Authority until March 2nd 1946 or until such earlier date as may be fixed for the cessation of the Allied pooling arrangements.

​8. To control banks and businesses, foreign exchange and foreign commercial and financial transactions as required by the Allies, for so long as may be necessary for the conclusion of matters of military, economic and financial concern to the Allies arising out of the settlement of the war with Japan.

9. Until a date or dates not later than September 1st 1947 to undertake to prohibit except in accordance with the recommendations of the Combined Boards or any successor body, and in the case of rice ander the direction of a special organisation to be set up for the purpose, any exports of rice, tin, rubber and teak, and to regulate trade in and stimulate production of these commodities.

10.

(a) To make available free of cost at Bangkok to an organisation to be indicated by the Government of the United Kingdom and as quickly as may be compatible with the retention of supplies adequate for Siamese internal needs, a quantity of rice equal the accumulated surplus of rice at present existing in Siam, subject to a maximum of one and a half million tons, the exact amount to be determined by the authorities appointed for the purpose of taking delivery ​of the rice. The rice should conform to the agreed standards of quality to be determined by the authorities appointed for the purpose of taking delivery of the rice. Equivalent quantities of paddy and loonzain may be accepted if so agreed in lieu of milled rice.

(b) Until a date not later than September 1st 1947 to make available to the rice organisations mentioned in Clauses 9 and 10 (a) all rice surplus to the internal needs of Siam, such rice with the exception of rice supplied in such a manner as the special organisation mentioned in Clause 9 shall indicate and at prices fixed in agreement with it having regard to the controlled prices of rice in other Asiatic rice-exporting areas.

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SINGAPORE

1st January 1946.

Sirs,

I have the honour to acknowledge your communication of to-day’s date enclosing a copy of the Heads of Agreemept and ​Annex which set out the terms on which the Government of the United Kingdom and the Government of India are prepared to liquidate the state of war with Siam.

In reply I have the honour to state, ander instructions from His Majesty’s Government, that they are prepared to sign without delay a formal agreement or agreements as indicated in your communication, and that pending such signature His Majesty’s Government will in all respects act in accordance with these provisions.

They also take note that the term “British” in the Heads of Agreement will, in the formal agreement or agreements, be so defined as to include all British subjects and protected persons, all territories under the sovereignty, suzerain protection or mandate of His Britannic Majesty the King-Emperor, and all undertakings duly constituted in accordance with the laws of any such territory.

I avail myself of this opportunity to express to you the assurance of my high consideration.

(signed) Viwat

M.E. Dening Esq., C.M.G., O.B.E.