COST OF MUNITIONS
VERY HEAVY. EXPENDITURE
(Rec.. February 16, 8.55 p.m.) London, February^lo. Lord Curzon, replying to criticisms with respect to the multiplication of office buildings and officials, pleaded the immensity of tho war needs, and gave as an example, the Ministry of Munitions. At the beginning of the ivar a million, was spent on Army munitions, while during the present financial year the expenditure would be five hundred .million. 'Hie number of controlled establishments under the Ministry of Munitions was now 4651, and the number employed were nearly two million.. i —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3006, 17 February 1917, Page 9
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95COST OF MUNITIONS Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3006, 17 February 1917, Page 9
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