SURPLUS WAR MATERIAL
» ■ j SALES TO BELGIUM AND FRANCE, j (Rec. March 27, 5.5 p.m.) j ' London; March 23. \ In the House of Commons at question '. time, Mr. J. F. Hope (Financial Secretary to the Ministry of Munitions) paid ' that sales of surplus war property had ' been made to the Belgian Government to j the' value of ',£6,000,000. ' This included ; railway lines, locomotives, tugs, launches, j barges, bridges, huts, and the whole con- \ tents of the arsenal at Mons. Tho sales j to .'the French Government, which were j not yet entirely scheduled, were estimated . i to amount'to .£23,000,000, and comprised I railway lines and.installations, wharves,, j bridges, huts, tdock equipment and en-. i gineering plant, the wholo contents of j tho dump's in the advanced areas and . j in the-vicinity of Calais and. Dunkirk, j covering stores of every conceivable na- 1 hire. The stores were still being trans- j feiTed to the respective Governments.— ! Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. , '. ._• j
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 157, 29 March 1920, Page 5
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160SURPLUS WAR MATERIAL Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 157, 29 March 1920, Page 5
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