EAST PERSIAN CAMPAIGN
ENORMOUS WASTE OE MONEY ALLEGED. (By Electric Telegraph-—Copyright) (Australian <fc N.Z' : Cable Association* . LONDON, Nov. 3. The Daily E.xpi css! -correspondent at Bombay states that an article in The Times of India exposes enormous waste of money in the East Persian campaign, the cost of which is estimated at a hundred- million sterling. An example is a. luxurious encampment which cost £IOO,OOO, and was discovered/to have been built on ' private ground, whereupon the owner was paid preposterous compensation. The profits of road-building and camel contractors would make multi-millionaires green with envy.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIV, Issue LIV, 4 December 1920, Page 5
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94EAST PERSIAN CAMPAIGN Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIV, Issue LIV, 4 December 1920, Page 5
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