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(Eeceived 8, 1.45 p.m.) LONDON, April 7. Revealing that British defence orders are being' placed^ in Germany, Sir Thomas InsMp, Minister for the Co-ordi nation of Defence, in the House of Commons, said that defence departments had plaoed machinery orders with Oerman firms amounting to £62,000 slnce January 1. Orders amounting to £168,000 had similarly heen placed for the shadow air factories. The Govfcrnment, h« said, had no inforination regarding the extent bf the ferders placed by private finne.* He explained that ordera referfed gciiSrally to machinea of a special class or those that could be dSliVered Carlief thaii they could he obtaiued ifl England.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 69, 8 April 1937, Page 5
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