BOER WAR MEAT SUPPLY.
.. CLAIM AGAINST CROWN. ■ KITCHENER AND THil "WAR OFFICE'S - , . i < LOSSES. : .(By Aspoclatlon.—OopyrlnhtO 5 : . LJndon, November 5. , .The trial has commenced- of an_ action on tt ' petition of right from:tho:'lmperial Cold Storage, Company,'.claiming ,£280,000 damages'; from ■, .tho' Crown for breach of contracts," ..v , . It .Is plained that jthe,War Office.; roprosenta- ) tivcs promised to supply tho company with all • the stock captured by. Lord' Kitchener during tlio Boer War. at a penny a pound below ,■ price. of -' tho. contract/ for supplying meat to tlio Army, whereas the War Office charged . threeponco above tho- contract price, and refused to allow for tho disease ■or poverty of the animals. According to some of the witnessed,. Lord Kitchener, declared' that the old Contractors defrauded the .War Office'; of a I million stprlingj and .that he would; not bo sat- ' isfictl till ho 1 got aomo of it back froin the suppliants. 1 . v "■' ' % . important question involyed Is whether the agreements wero mado under the Dutch
Or tho English law. . ,
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 658, 8 November 1909, Page 7
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168BOER WAR MEAT SUPPLY. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 658, 8 November 1909, Page 7
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