THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, JULY
21, 1936.
£1,600,000,000 SPENT IN THREE YEARS
Revelations In London Newspaper
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 Germa sources, it is now possible. to give the nearest approximation to the true position that has ever been published,
Among other facts, a Special Correspondent reveals that Germany's expenditure on arms during the current year alone will far exceed the entire British Budget.
£1,600,000,000 SPENT IN THREE YEARS
Germany's war preparations are on;
an even väster seule than has hitherto
been supposed; and even the nearest
months roughly five times as much
nu arming as Great Britain,
Of the two items which go to junko
estimate of her expenditure, which up Germany's total arms expenditur was made by Mr. Winston Churchili, düring 1986, the srennd is less al- falls short of the facts.
arming than the first. Germany was!
ener-
In an endeavour to employ local fitel as far as possible, several coun. ries have emmenerd to use gas for droving motor-cars, Even i' oil. produeing Rassla experiments have been unde, mur picture showing a Russlan gas-driyen enr receiving fuel.
£250,000
SWISS GOLD
SEIZED
IN U. S. A.
New York, July 12.
hundred and fifty canvas
bags containing double gold eagles, weighing two tons and of
¦
Mr. Chitehill's Bigues, which were relatively darmed before Berr it-TWO given to the Huuse of Commons on bee came to power, and her disadvan April 23, and reaffirmed spleequently tage could only be remedied by n
London newspaper, Areased large capital utlay, involving
tensive borrowing.
A total value of £250,000, were world-wide interest,
Far more serious, from an inter-seized to-day from a safe deposit They
Ewart quant comm Parlament and outside, and though! fintional print of view. is the the Government did not deny that mous sum devoted to "maintenance, y Federal Secret Service agents, They were later taken in lorries they accorded with their own ti-The estimate of from £100,000,000 to mate, no authentic confirmation is $500,000,(K) earmarked for this pur-under armed tried to the fitted yet been forthenming
pose equals the amount of capital: States Assay Oftler,
The gold was owned, by a Swie) I am now in a position not only to expenditure, but whereas the latter bstantiate 3r Churchill's statement to fr found out of Income, in prtation Aktim Gesellschalt,
Jean, be met by herrowing, the former company, the fierce Finanz Kor-1. but also to amplify it considerably.
jather words by taxation. THE FIGURES
According to my informants, Ger many's expaditure on her armed forces in 1935 was as follows:
(a) For the maintenance of the Army, Navy, and Air Forces, £240,000,000.
(b) Capital (borrowed) expendi ture on armaments, from £100,000 000 to £500,000,000.
The burden thus imposed on the firemen pouple is such that in the opinion of most financial experta it enmot be borne indefinitely. The | danger, therefore, is that a point will soon be reached when Herr Biller is
faced with the choice of abandoning his present policy or engaging in foreign diversion.
The second rowse, needless to say, means war. It was the one adopted u a similar predicament. by Signor. Added together these two items pro Mussolini inst year, but the Abys duce a total of from £410,00,000 to sinon adventure is insignificant in 2740,000,000 spent by Gerisany comparison with what would fallow warlike preparations during 1936. Mence the German war machine were Churchill's estimate for that your was set in motion across Europe. from £600,000,000 - 1↔-£290,000,000,-
It must not be supposed, however, that this colossal expenditure only be
Herr Hitler enme intaj Kan last year, power in January, 1933, and German rearmament has been in full swing ever since.
-GROWING DEBT
During the three years 1933-34-36!
COURT'S DECISION
The seizure of the gold was orderest by the Treasury Department tri Washington as the culmination of pro- tracted titigation which was thrially decided by the Supreme Court,
The Supreme terrt had refused to riview the tower courts action in up- bolding the constitutionality of the Gold Reserve Act (1934) as it applied to Aller. The Act forbid 1เ private hoarding of gold
Cout
The Secord Circul Appeals Burt held and its derision was upheld by the Supreme Court that a stellar for dollar return would te adequate, and added that "to allow its exportation would have been tu the gold in its own country a value in enable the complainant to realise upon
2,500,000 roitars."
That Herr Hitler will be forced to make war rather than face an excess internal collapse, and revolution is Reuter. nevertheless the opinion not only of most, outside observeru, but abo of many Kober-minded Germanse themselves.
For this reason precise knowledge i the total interest-bearing debt of the Germany's present preparations is Reich increased by 1,240,000,000, clearly of profound importance to the largely representing capital expendither nations in Europe, especially To this must be those who are liable to find them. added, according to my information, selves pitted against her in the war, which those very preparations now between $300,000,000 and £190,000,-) 000 spent on nintentice, represent seem to render inevitable, ing current expenditure on the armed)
ture on armaments,
forces
The cost of Germany's war pre- parations for the period January, 1933, to December, 1935, was, there fore, approximately £1,500,000,000. With the exchange at 12% Rm. to the
CONSCRIPTION FOR
RUSSIAN WOMEN
F, this amount slightly exceeds Mr.TRAINING WITH
Churchill's estimate for the same period. It includes 1K number of non-military items, which are, how- ever, indirectly connected with rear- mament.
MODERN WEAPONS
Helsingfors, July 12.
The Russian authorities are said to
From the same sources I have re be seriously considering the Introduc- ceived the following estimate of the tion of compulsory military service Amounts which will be spent by far women. Germany on arms in the current
year:
recurrent. BRITISH EXPENDITURE
Present plans provide for the training of 3,000,000 women capable
of
Lupe Velez "Saving Up to Retire"
New York; July 16. On her arrival in New York
Weismuller, the film
She
Wish for
Lidless
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, "other- wise Walter Clements," of Church-street, Lower Edmon- ton, N., a tobacconist.
The powder house, "or cave,
at Marke Valley, Upton Cross, FAME FOR
Callington, Cornwall," is situated
in a lonely guiley and is difficult to reach.
"Mr. Nunu belonged to a svet which | believes that the lead only sleep, and will rise again on an appointed day,i and his directions were a strict inter- Pretation of his faith," said a friend recently. He directed that
The Idless coffin be covered with a white cloth and placed on a shelf. or trestles;
The dans of the powder house hej secured by a patent-lock:
The funeral service be conducted by the Watch Tower Bible and Tract! Society,
SCENE OF HOLIDAYS
THE QUINS
New York, July 7.
The Dionne quintuplet hare ernaled the Encyclopaedia. Brit- tanica. They are the first living children in 150 years of Brit. tanica history to make the prude, a publisher's representative mu- nounced recently with some ex- ritement.- United Press,
£27,000,000 for New
Ships
Commenting on the Chancellor of Mr. Nunn died while on a visit to the Government has given its pro-
| the_Exchequer's announcement East, his father, a retired school attendance |tional consent to n loan of £5,000,- officer, who lived near the porder ong for the construction of a
comm-
house was here that Mr. Nana panion ship to the Queen Mary. "The
used to spend his holidayn, und before Shipping World" sinles that three This death he was persunded to agree of the biggest shipbuiding contracts
Methodist cemetery as Rilla M, near be signed in the next few months. that his burial should take place in the ever placed in this or any country will Linkinherne, Cornwall.
These ropresent an expenditure of Built of stone and covered with ivy.the cost of this new
about 27,000,000, und cover not only the powder house now serves as an battleships of the new naval pro- ner, and two excellent shelter for sheep and goats ramme, but also three contracts for enige in from the neighbouring moor crue
night. It is well hidden by the ty ferns and trees, but has no door.
Of this £27,000,000, 80 per cent. will be paid in wages,
Kiduapped Baby Charge
SON SAYS
HE
HYPNOTISED
HIS MOTHER
Aix-en-Provence, July 15.
MOTHER, aged seventy, and her son, aged twenty- eight, 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 hypmatism, and where they imprisoned the child tell you it was so." and arrested the couple.
The judge questioned Andre "about his past; about the cheque forgeries he had committed in Rouen.
Women looked with horror on the
"I nimi afl the facts," said Andre, blotchy, toothless face of the old woman as she stood in the dock, in a tone of calm 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. He interrupted The evidence
with was a bad man.'
whistling and hissing.
It was the mother's turn to give evidence frst.
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 francs from the town hall in Dieppe, she cried out A, mather doesn't maltreat her sick child."
male debts The judge: "You
"NEEDED MONEY"
the
(x) £100,000,000 to £500,000,000 of, in time of seal, taking their from England to see her husband, everywhere." current expenditure on maintenance places in the ranks of the Soviet Jolay
(b) $400,000,000 to $500,000.000 Union's 10,000,000 army. The women Tarzan," Lape Velez gave re- capital expenditure on armaments. The estimated total for 1936 can will be divided into battalions 1,000
"I needed the money," sald thus be placed in the region of £500,-strong, aut will be taught the use of porters a lecture on thrift. 000,000,
She said she and her husbandmother, "to kok after my son." half of which will bolern weapons, particularly ma-
chine-guns and hand grenades, were "tired of it all," and were
They will also be employed by the saving their money to retire. Air Force, it being estimated that allows herself a mere £5 a week there are at present 50,000 women in and her husband operates on al It is instructive to compare this Russia fully trained in parachute weekdy budget of £8. figure with the money spent on de-descending. A 20-year-old woman! fences by Great Britain. During 1930 Pakchejavn, hns recently been made curselves, declared Miss Velez. the total sum budgeted for by the commanding officer tho Smolensk Chancellor of the Exchequer is air squadron, £810,000,000, of which £170,000,000 is Women are also being extensively beauty parlour, and I never go to allocated to defences, including pen employed by the GPU (State Political a hairdresser. My hair is nature of an expert, "What one export says *sions,
Police), many of them having been ally curly, and I do my own nails." another contradicts. I have studled In other words, Germany will decorated for "special
"And we never," she added, "goj services spend during the current twelve rendered.",
Ito night cluba."--Reuter.
WATSON'S
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 hypustised her during her sleep, and she obeyed me without knowing what she was doing.” "But that is scientifically impon- "I have never seen the inside of a sible," exclaimed the judge.
"We never spend any money on
25'cts.
per
BABY WATER Bottle
PREVENTS BABY'S LITTLE TUMMY TROUBLES
"Sir," said Andre, with all the air
Judge Objects To "O.K."
Mr. Justice Clauson objected to|
a witness in a Chancery gult reply-| Ing "OK."
to
"Because you have been Anerlea there is no need to say "O.K.", the judge told him. “If you want to say "Yes,' say 'Yes.' Speak English in this court, if you don't mind.".
The witness sald he would, but!“ to the next question by counsel his answer was: "That's quite O.K."
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