Monetary Losses In Evacuations
(British Official Wireless.) Received Wednesday, 9.20 p.m. RUGBY, April 29. Among the interesting facts and figures revealed by the auditor’s report on tho army accounts is the fact that some £2,000,000 worth of expenditure incurred while the B.E.F. was in France and Belgium is unvouclied for because the relative books were lost or destroyed during the retreat prior to the evacuation of Dunkirk. Another item is over £40,000 representing cash lost or unaccounted for during the evacuations of France and Norway.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 66, Issue 102, 1 May 1941, Page 7
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