FORGOTTEN ACCOUNT
BRITAIN LOSES £37,009
Pres# Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.
LONDON, November 7. (Received November 8. at 1.30 a.m.) The ‘ Daily New ’ says that £37,000 is irrecoverably lost to Britain. _ This sum was due to Britain on the winding up of the fund for repatriating Rumanian, Polish, and Czecho-Sloyakian prisoners. A Whitehall official forgot to send the account to Gene /a, where the officials failed to notice the omission, wherefore the fund was wound up without Britain getting the money.— Sydney, ‘Sun’- .Cable,
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Evening Star, Issue 19708, 8 November 1927, Page 5
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81FORGOTTEN ACCOUNT Evening Star, Issue 19708, 8 November 1927, Page 5
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