WARSHIPS GIVEN AWAY.
GIFTS TO THE DOMINIONS. LARGE SUM INVOLVED. By Telegraph.—Press Assn—Copyright. Received August 16, 8.20 p.m. London, August 15. The report of the sub-committee on public accounts issued to-day says it is clearly a serious matter that warships should be given away without the consent of Parliament. The report adds: “We note that H.M.S. Encounter, with guns and stores, three mine-sweeping sloops, valued at £73.000 each, and two submarine engines with spares were all thus given to Australia. Two 5 class submariner; were given to Canada. “From the army accounts we find that surplus non marketable stores valued at £2,000,000 when new were handed over to Poland gratis with the Treasury’s •.notion. Stores worth £l7 000.000. in addition to cash amounting to £6.000.000, were similarly given to Russia. Fifty surplus aeroplanes were given to Greece.” The committee adds: “No doubt during the war it may not always have been possible to await Parliamentary sanction, but the whole of the above gifts were made long after the armistice.”—-Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 17 August 1921, Page 5
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