A CANADIAN SCANDAL.
DEFECTIVE AMMUNITION. MILLIONS OF BOUNDS USELESS. (Times Sydney Sun Special Cable.) (Received 5.30 a.m.) OTTAWA. November 20. Colonel fiaiidit. hpntl of the Quebec arsennl. lias retired owing to nn ammunition defects sriindal. Twelve million rounds of ammunition have proved to he defective, and it will be necessary to mHt down the material of 1.500.0(10 cartridge cases stoi-k has not been tnken in the arsenal for 13 years. A shell factory established year? airo never produced a sinple sliell of rnrrert and th(» condition of the machinery necessitates the closing of the factory.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 278, 21 November 1913, Page 5
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95A CANADIAN SCANDAL. Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 278, 21 November 1913, Page 5
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