Equipment, Canal Zone (Theft)

HC Deb 06 March 1956 vol 549 c181W

68. Mr. Sorensen

asked the Secretary of State for War to what extent British military and other equipment and stores have been lost by theft or otherwise in the Canal Zone of Egypt.

Mr. F. Maclean

Since the beginning of the withdrawal from the Canal Zone in August, 1954, there have been fifty cases of theft. Losses from other causes have been negligible.