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THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 18, 1987.
MORE MONEY FOR HONG KONG S
DEFENCES
GERMAN PREDICTION FOLLOWING HUGE LOAN ANNOUNCEMENT
BERLIN, TO-DAY.
HONG KONG, SINGAPORE AND OTHER BRITISH BASES IN THE FAR EAST, ARE TO BE CONSIDERABLY FURTHER STRENGTHENED, STATES THE GERMAN PRESS, AS A RE- SULT OF THE HUGE £400,000,000 ARMAMENTS LOAN.
SOMEWHAT OF A SENSATION HAS BEEN CAUSED IN GERMANY BY THE SIZE OF THE NEW LOAN, WHILE IN ENGLAND THE PROJECT HAS FORCED ALL OTHER NEWS INTO THE BACKGROUND.
Messages from Berlin reveal that, parably greater than those facing every newspaper in the Reich yes- the British Empire, was severely terday discussed the British move criticized for developing her de- in lengthy editorials, with special fence forces.. reference to the Hong Kong and Singapore bases.
Amount Surprises
In London the newspapers yester-
The "Deutsche Allgemeine Zei- tung" declares that England is look-day "splashed" news of the loan, ing beyond Europe and is attempt-and in financial and political circles ing to keep peace with the world. it has forced all other questions
Admitting that England is justi-into the background.
The political correspondent of the fied in regarding the English Chan-
as a com-
nel as a source of possible danger, "Daily Telegraph" declares that the and in need of fortification, the Government step came.. paper goes on to point out that vari-plete surprise, especially as re- oùs events during the past year gards the amount of the loan.
It was generally taken for grant- have served to draw British atten- Hon to the Far East, and that it caned in Westminster circles that the reasonably be expected that exten-loan would not exceed $150,000,000, sive improvements in British forti-and the opinion prevails that the fications and naval bases in this Government is determined to dis-" part of the world will be under pense with half-way measures and draw up an armaments programme taken.
which will be complete in every de- tail.
New Pacific Era
The paper hopes that the tax- With the lapse of the Washing
payer will be spared direct burden ton and London Naval Treaties, December 31 last year, a new era of the loan, although it is believed has begun in Pacific armaments, that the income tax will be in- and the British Empire certainly creased to five shillings in the has no intention of letting other Pound. countries gain an advantage over her in this zone:
Only A Fraction
It is reckoned that the Budget Other points on which huge sums are to be spent, says the paper, are expenditure for armaments during Gibraltar, which has been complete the coming financial year will total ly modernised, Cyprus, Haifa, Sin-£170,000,000, and if this is consider- annual expenditure gapore, Hong Kong and various ed an average naval bases and oil stations in the during the next five years, this, combined with the $400,000,000- Pacific.
loan, would bring the total cost to around £1,200,000,000
The Morning Post" also points
armaments but is nearly the high-
Plenary. PowerS The Berlin "Lokalanzeiger" is surprised by the rapidity without that this sum is by no means in- tended to cover the whole cost of which England is armng, this be ing indicated by the fact that the Government has asked Parliament for plenary powers in the matter of expenditure in order to avoid ob- stacles and delays which would-cer- tainly result from Parliamentary procedure.
est amount that the Government can borrow for armaments purposes during the next five years.-Trans- Ocean.
COAST SHELLING
The paper points out that the time is past when one nation is en- titled to protest against the arma- ment activities of other Powers, and Coast defence practice with live take place from recalls Herr Hitler's words in his ammunition will last Reichstag address, when he de- the undermentioned forts, during clared that each Power must decide next week:⠀⠀⠀ which measures-are-necessary for its own defence.
A Parallel
Agreeing that the dish arma-
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