WAR OFFICE CONTRACTS.
OPPOSITION DEFEATED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, March 19. In the House of Commons tho motion of inquiry re army contracts was negatived by 346 to 191. The Nationalists and Roseberyites voted with the minority. Mr Asquith admitted that Lord Kitchener would be a necessary witness in connection with the cold storage contracts. He argued that precedents justified the demand for an immediate inquiry, though confident that tho honor of British ofiicors would be untarnished.
Mr Balfour replied with unusual warmth. lie said that a full inquiry would be impolitic and impossible at the present. When such an inquiry was made it would show that the army was never so well fed, clothed, and horsed. An inquiry now would be worth five thousand reinforcements to the enemy.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 370, 20 March 1902, Page 2
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