§ Mr. D. SOMERVILLEasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether, as stated in the Civil Service Appropriation Acts, for some reason or other the State has lost the best part of 3,000 typewriters; what. was the cause of such loss; and whether there ware any prosecutions whatever instituted in connection with their disappearance?
Mr. GRAHAMThe answer to the first part of the question is in the affirmative. The majority of these typewriters were lost in the forward areas in France and Belgium during hostilities. In the case of typewriters lost under peace conditions prosecution is undertaken where practicable.