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TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, JULY 21,
1936.
£1,600,000,000 SPENT IN THREE YEARS
Revelations In London Newspaper Wish for Lidless
GERMANY'S COLOSSAL WAR EXPENDITURE
FIRST AUTHENTIC FIGURES
WITHOUT PARALLEL · IN PEACE-TIME
The London Morning Post recently placed the public in : possession of the first authentic details of Germany's expenditure on armaments.
Though the figures given below are even more remarkable than any that have yet been suggested, there are the strongest reasons for accepting their accuracy, says that newspaper.
Their importance at the present time can hardly be exaggerated.
BIGGER THAN BRITISH BUDGET
From Information obtained from entirely reliable German sources, it is now possible to give the nearest approximation to the true position that has ever been published,
In na endeavour to employ neat fuel ne fat as possible, several coun- tries have commenced to use gas for oil- driving moline-cnes, Even in producing Russia experiments inve fren mudy, our pleture showing 11 Russian gas-driven car receiving fuel,
..
Among other facts, a Special Correspondent reveals that £250,000
Germany's expenditure on arms during the current year alone Į will far exceed the entire British Budget.
£1,600,000,000 SPENT IN THREE YEA'S
Germany's war preparations are on;
an even väster senle than kns hitherto been supposed; and even the meares!)]
months roughly five times as much
on arming as Great Britain.
Of the two items which go to make
estimate of her expenditure, which up Germany's total nrias expenditure was made by Mr. Winston Churchill, during 19834, the second is low al- fulls short of the facts.
Juring than the first. Germany was i
SWISS GOLD
SEIZED
IN U. S. A.
New York, July 12.
Str. Churchill's figures, which were relatively disarmed before Herr Hi TWO odred and nity canvas bags containing double gold given to the House of Commons on ler came to power, and her disadvan- Apell, and reaffirmed sheequently tage could only be remedied by n
ex jengles, weighing two tons and of in a London newspaper, neotsed large capital outlay, involving
Itensive borrowing. world-wide interest,
in
i
Coffin & Burial In Cave
A
WISH to be buried in an "old powder house, in a lid- less coffin and wearing a dressing gown," was con- tained in the will, of Mr. Walter Clements Nunn, "óther- wise Walter Clements," of Church-street, Lower Edmon- ton, N., a tobacconist.
The powder house, "or cave,
nt Marke Valley, Upton Cross, FAME FOR
Callington, Cornwall," is situated
in a lonely gulley and is difficult to 'reach.
"Mr. Nunn Bolonged to a sect which believes that the end only sleep, and will rise again on an appointed day,
and his directions were a strict inter pretation of his faith," said a friend rerntly. He directed that
The idless cofia be covered with a white cloth and placed on a shelf or trestles
The dour of the powder house be secured by a patent lock:
The funeral service he conducted by the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society.
THE QUINS
New York, July 7.
The Dionne quintuplets have crashed the Encyclopaedia Brit- tanica. They are the first living children in 150 years of Brit tanica history to make the grade, a publisher's representative are naimeed recently with some cas citement-United Press.
£27,000,000 for New
Ships
SCENE OF HOLIDAYS
Commenting on the Chancellor ni Mr. Nunn died while on a visit the Government has given its pro- the Exchequer's announcement. thint
|his father, a retired school attendance, visional consent to a loan of £5,000,- officer, who lived near the powder 100 for the construction of a com-
used to spend his holidays, and before Shipping World" states that three his death he was persuaded to age of the biggest shipbulding contract, that his Jurial should take place in the ever placed in this or any country will Methodist centery at Rilla Mill, near be signed in the next few months, Linkinhorne, Cornwall,
These represent an expenditure of jabul 1:27,000,000, and cover not only the cost of this new liner, and tw battleships of the new navul pro- gramme, but also three contracts for cruisers.
house. It was here that Mr. Sunnpaulon ship to the Queen Mary, "The
Buift of stone and covered with ivy, in total value of £250,000, were the powder house now serves as a For more serious, from an inters seized to-day from a safe deposit excellent shelter for sheep and goats They Were questioned both Parliament and outside, and though national point of view, is the enor by Federal Secret Service agents, coming in from the neighbouring moor It is well hidden by thủ ivy, the Government did not deny that tous sum devoted to, maintenance."
They were later taken in lorries at night, they accorded with their own asti. The estimate of from £100,000,000 to mate, no authentic roadironation has£500,000,000 earmarked for this pur-under armed guard to the United to) ferns and Leves, but has no door.
| pose equals the amount of enpital Sales Assay Dilee
The gold was owned by a Swis yet been fortheonting.
I am now in pusition not only to expenditure, but whereas the latter. substantiate Mr. Churchill's statement can be mot hy borrowing, the former lempary, the Terre Finanz Kor but also to mplify it considerably, has to be found out of income, in poration Aktien Gesellschaft. THE FIGURES
other words by taxation.
The burden thus imposed on the in the German peeple is such that According to my informants,, Ger opinion of most financial experts it ไทย horne indefinitely. The many's expuditure in her armed forces, cannul
danser, therefore, is that a point will in 1935 win as follows:
snow he reached when Herr Hitler is faced with the choice of abandoning his present policy or engaging in foreign diversion.
(a) For the maintenance of the Army. Navy,
and Air Furces. £210,000,000.
(b) Capital (borrowed) expendi- ture on armaments, from 100,000, 000 to £300,000,000,
COURT'S DECISION
The seizure of the gold was ordered by the Tresstory Department In
trarted litigation which was fully decided by the Supreme Court,
or this £7,500,000, 80 per cent. will be paid in wages,
Kidnapped Baby Charge
Washington as the culmination of pro SON SAYS HE
The Supreme Court had refused tö review the lower cont's action in up- ahoking the constitutionality of thei | Gold Réservé Art (1984) as it applied | The second course, needless to say, to Aliens. The Art forbids the means war. I was the one adopted private hoarding of gold.. in a similar predicament by Signor The Second
Circu
Court
Added together these two items pro | Mussolin last year, but the Aby-Appeals bad helt and its decision. duce a total of from £640,000,000 to|sinian" adventure is insignificant in, was upheld by the Supreme Court -- £748,000,000 spent by Germany comparison with what would follow flat a dullar for dollar return would warlike preparations during 1935. Mr. ones the Germani war machine were be aequets, and added that "lo Churchill's estimate for that your waslet in motion neruss Europe. from £600,000,000 to £800,000,000.
It must not be supposed, however, thue this colossal expenditure only be gan last year. Herr fitler came into) power in January, 1933, and German; rearmament has been in full swing! ever since.
GROWING DEBT
itsxjurlation "would have been to
HYPNOTISED
HIS MOTHER
Aix-en-Provence, July 15.
ab. the complainant to realise upon A MOTHER, aged seventy, and her son, aged twenty-
the gold is its own country a value in of 2,500,000 dollars."--
That Herr Hiller will be forced to make war rather than face an internal callapse, and revolution is Reuter. nevertheless the opinion not only
of most outside, observers, but also
themselves.
CXCURS
of many sober-mindedl Germans Lupe Velez “Saving
Up to Retire"
For this reason precise knowledge During the three years 1933-34-35) the total interest-bearing debt of the Germany's present preparations is Reich increased by £1,940,000,000, clearly of profound importance to the largely representing capital expendi-her nations in Europe, especially those who are liable to find them-
ture on armoments. To this must elves pitted against her in the war, added, according to my information which those very preparations now between £200,000,000 ind £400,008,-
seem to render inevitable,
900 spent on mintenance, represent; į
current expenditure on the armed
ing
forces.
cost of Germany's war' pre
for the period January,!
to December, 1935, was, there. fore, approximately £1,600,000,000. With the exchange at 12% Rm. to the
. this amount slightly exceeds M Churchill's estimate for the sume period. It includes s number of non-military items, which are, how. indirectly connected with rear-
ever, mnment
From the same sources I have ceived the following estimate of the amounts which will be spent by
CONSCRIPTION FOR RUSSIAN WOMEN
TRAINING WITH
MODERN WEAPONS
Helsingfors, July 12. -
The Russian authorities are anid to be seriously considering the introdue- tion of compulsory military service
for women.
Germany on arms in the current Present plans provide for the
year:
training of 3,000,000 women capable,
cight, were charged at the Aix-en-Provence Assize Court to-day with kidnapping Claude Malmegac, aged two, son of a doctor, in Marseilles last November.
They were Marie Cardin and Andre Clement, and it was stated that they held the baby in captivity for four days, demanding a ransom of £650 from his parents.
Police then found the cottage | widely the science of hypnutism, and where they imprisoned the child tell you it was so," and arrested the couple.
The judge questioned Andre, about This past; about the cheque forgeries Women looked with horror on the he had committed in Rouen. blotchy, toothless face of the old
"I admit all the facts," said Andre, woman as she stood in the duck, in a lone of enim detachment, but bent over her crooked sticks, look when the judge referred to his mother ing like a witch out of some fairy Andre came to life once more, tale; and the young man's arrogant
"It is all my father's fault," he
eyes inspired no friendly feelings cried excitedly. "It was my father in the large and hostile crowd which who made my mother miserable. interrupted the evidence
with was a bad man.'
whistling and hissing.
It was the mother's turn to give
evidence first.
In answer to the judge's question why she had not punished her son when, aged sixteen, she had found that he had stolen 1,500 franes from the town hall in Dieppe, she cried out "A mother doesn't maltreat her New York, July 16. sick child."
minde debts On her arrival in New York
The judge: "You
(n) £400,000,000 to $300,000,000 of, in time of need, taking their from England to see her husband, everywhere." current expenditure on maintenance places in the ranks of the Soviet Johnny Weismuller, the filni
(b) £100,000,000 to £500,000,000 Union's 10,000,000 army. The women Tarzan Lape Velez stave res enpital expenditure un armaments, will be divided into battalions 1,000"|
lecture on thrift. The estimated total for 1936 can strong, and will be taught the use of porters thus be placed in the region of £900.-
modern weapons, particularly run- which will of 000,000, half
bachine guns and hand grenades. Yecurrent.
BRITISH EXPENDITURE
"
were
"NEEDED MONEY"
Later came Andre's turn. "My mother," he announced, "was com pletely under my influence.. She And nothing to do with it really. I had hypnotised her during her sleep and she obeyed me without; knowing what she was doing." "But that is scientifically impos
"I needed the money," said the She said she and her husband mother, "to look after ny son."
"tired of it all," and were Thos will also be employed by the saving their money to retire. She Air Force, it being estimated that allows herself a nere a week there are at present* 50,000 women in and her husband operated on a It is instructive to compare this Russin fully trained in parachute weekly budget of £8.
A 29-year-old woman figure with the money spent on de-descending.
"We never spend any money on] fences by Great Britain. During 1030 Pakdhejaya, has recently been made ourselves," declared Mias Velez, the total sum budgeted for by the commanding oficer of the Smolensk "I have never seen the inside of a sible," exclaimed the judge, Chancellor of the Exchequer is jair squadron, E810,000,000, of which £170,000,000 is Women are also being extensively beauty parlour, and I never go to "Sir," said Andre, with all the air allocated to defences, including per employed by the GPU (State Political hairdresser. My hair is tor-of an expert, "What one expert says another contradicts, I have studied Polico), many of them having been ally curly, and I do my own nails." In other words, Germany will decorated for "special services "And we never," she wilded, “go apend during the current twelve rendered,"
to night clubs."-Reuter.
sions.
WATSON'S
25 cts: per
BABY WATER Bottle
PREVENTS BABY'S LITTLE TUMMY TROUBLES
Judge Objects
To "O.K."
Mr. Justice Clauson objected to a witness in a Chancery sult reply- Ang "Q.K."
"If
"Because you have been to America there is no need to any
O.K.", the judge told him. you want to say "Yes, say "Yos.' Speak English in this court, if you don't mind."
The witness said he would, but to the next question by counkel his; answer was: "That's quite O.K."
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