2786 TTYPEWRITERS VANISH
“MISLAID” BY WAR OFFICE Sheiks in the Mesopotamian wilderness, peasants on French farms, shepherds in 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. The War Office borrowed 32,000 typewriters between 1914 and 1920, and the Civil Services Appropriations Accounts reveal that 2786, weighing many tons, nave vanished. Experts 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 tho Mission to the Baltic Provinces, and the Treasury has directed that members of the mission shall pay £6OO. The report says that the disappearance of these stores is "extremely unsatifactory.”
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Manawatu Times, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3598, 2 April 1924, Page 5
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1462786 TTYPEWRITERS VANISH Manawatu Times, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3598, 2 April 1924, Page 5
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