§ 63. Major RUGGLES-BRISEasked the Secretary of State for the Colonies the 383 cost to the British Exchequer of the campaign in Tanganyika territory during the Great War?
§ Mr. ORMSBY-GOREI have consulted my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for War, but regret that the information asked for is not available. The form in which Government accounts are kept makes it very difficult to estimate separately the cost of a particular campaign in the Great War.
§ Major RUGGLES-BRISEIs it possible to give any approximate figure?
§ Mr. ORMSBY-GOREI understand that it would not be possible, because the system of accounting in the different theatres of war makes it practically impossible to arrive at any figures that are of value.