SECRET SERVICE
RISE IN EXPENDITURE. LONDON, April 23. Secret Service expenditure had risen from £46,84(1 in 1913 to £416,509 last year, stated Captain H. F. Crookshank (Financial Secretary to the Treasury) in the House of Commons to-day. Mr. L. Horc-Belisha (Secretary of State for .War) said that the manufacturing rights for Bren guns had beene acquired under an agreement mad,e on May 25, 1935, which also enabled Britain to grant licences for manufacture to the Dominions. The anti-aircraft defences in Britain were now satisfactoy, he added.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 98, 28 April 1939, Page 11
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86SECRET SERVICE Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 98, 28 April 1939, Page 11
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