Australia 387 3,751 400 Canada 539 "2.822 280 New Zealand 129 1,490 87 India 3 490 South Africa "a no 2 Newfoundland 12 52-2
In addition, 42 anns, 335 machineguns and 76 trench mortars have been issued to the Colonial Office, for distribution among the remain ing British possessions.
The India Office, on inquiry, tells me-that a certain number of the trophies have been sent to the Bombay War Museum, but the hulk has gone to the Indian War Memorial at Delhi.
The Colonial Office is apparently distributing its collection to the smaller Crown Colonies.
'The War Office tells me that the distribution has been without any real incident, and that every effort has been made to send each place which applied the most suitable object, but as a rule what it asked for.' Sometimes it was found possible to send something rather more valuable than what was originally requested.
A few offers of trophies have been refused, but they were very few, and here and there ex-soldiers have destroyed trophies which were sent, but all these incidents together do not number much more than half-a-dozen to a dozen. The work, therefore, can be regarded as having been carried out with great success, though one sometimes wonders whether in time to come some of the trophies, more especially tanks, will not prove to be somewhat of white clep!
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