2786 TYPEWRITERS VANISH.

Shannon News, 8 April 1924, Page 2

2786 TYPEWRITERS VANISH.

“MISLAID” BY WAR OFFICE t

Sheiks in the Mesopotamian wilderness, peasants on French farms, shepherds iii Palestine, and merchants in Salonika have recently became expert typists at the expense of the War Office.

These and certain people in Great Britain have practised the touch system so diligently that the War Office has been touched to the extent of £20,000. Tho War Office borrowed 32,000 typewriters bottween 1914 and 1920, and the Civil Services Appropriations Accounts reveal that 2786 1 weighing many tons, have vanished. Expats have been instructed to seek these typewriters diligently, but wines and spirits and other canteen stores to the value of £7716 are believed to be irrecoverable. They were handed to the Mission to the Baltic Provinces, and the Treasury has directed that members of the mission shall pay £SOO. The report says that the disappearance of these stores is “extremely unsatifactory.”