BACK TO THE MELTING POT
WAR SOUVENIRS SOLD AS SCRAP IRON Pres* Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, April 7. Deciding to sell' the town’s war souvenirs as scrap iron, the Folkestone Council accepted 22s 6d a ton for a British tank, field gun, and a German howitzer, which were presented by the National War Savings Committee in recognition of support of war loans. The ‘ News-Chronicle,’ in a leader, says: “So memorials to a war that was to end war, set up so proudly, now go back to the melting pot to help in the preparations for the next war.”
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Evening Star, Issue 22618, 9 April 1937, Page 9
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