ECONOMY CAMPAIGN
COST OP BRITISH REPRESENTATION AT PEACE COUNCIL. (Rec. March 9, 5.5 p.m.) London, March i. The "Daily Mail" has started a postcard economy campaign, by which thousands of housewives' post-cards demanding a reduction in the cost of living are daily delivered to members of the House of Commons. The paper claims that the first result was apparent in a debate in the House of Commons on the. cost of British representation at the Peace Council at Paris. Colonel J. C. Wedgwood estimated it at Sir Alfred Mond admitted, that' the hotel bills were .£200.000 for accommodation only. Heckled about typists' dresses, dances, bands, and champagne, Sir Alfred Mond disclainied any responsibility, and said the Food Ministry supplied the champagne.—United Service.
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 141, 10 March 1920, Page 7
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122ECONOMY CAMPAIGN Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 141, 10 March 1920, Page 7
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