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BRITAIN’S EXPENDITURE
STATEMENT IN HOUSE OF
COMMONS.
(British Official Wireless.)
RUGBY, June 21. (Received June 22, at 5.5 p.m.) The First Lord of the Admiralty (Sir Bolton Eyres-Monscll), replying to a question in Parliament, said that his attention hqd been drawn to an announcement'that President Roosevelt had authorised the expenditure of £59,000,000 for building warships under the London Treaty. The total expenditure approved by Britain in this regard, he said, was £39,000,000. Up to March 31 last, however, the total sum so spent was £8,250,000.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21987, 23 June 1933, Page 9
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