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17, 1937.
£400,000,000-The Full Inside Story of Why Britain Is Re-arming
When the Fleet Bluffed Mussolini-With Only
24 Hours' Ammunition
Mighty Display That
Stopped a
War
O-DAY the eyes of the world are on the nation that joined the arms race last and means to win if for the sake of peace.
British rearmament is now by far the most important factor in European affairs. In a few months it has changed the whole international outlook.
It all began with "the greatest concentration of naval might in the history of the world." That was the description of the British Fleet when on that October day in 1935 it sailed into the Mediterranean.
Italy had been warned of what Britain' could do if British interests were menaced by Mussolini's attack on Abyssinia. And now Britain was showing her hand.
For days on end 'destroyers, cruisers, battleships, sub- marines, and other craft steamed through the Straits of Gibraltar to the Mediterranean Fleet.
Alexandria became the concentration point of a greater Armada than had ever gathered before there or anywhere else. As a demonstration of naval strength it was a glorious, inspiring spectacle.
But that mighty Navy was unprepared for war.
It had not enough shells to last 24 hours if war had come. Many of the destroyers were obsolete-weaker in armament and slower than those which Italy could have pitted against them.
Our newest cruisers were less powerful than Italy's. Our urcraft-carriers and flying-boats less well-equipped.
The official part at St. Patrick's, Ball Lady.Caldecott is seated in the middle of the photograptı.
--King's Studio.
Air Novice Disabled
In
Mends Parliament
Quotes Shakespeare
Plane Mid-Air
Pensacola, Fla., Feb. 28. landing the alling plane without ac- A dangling youth hung outcident. One of the women fainted
Possibly the display of Britain's Japan spent nearly half of its total of a disabled plane in midair Fleet prevented a great war. Cer-Budget on arms for the war in China. to repair its landing gear tainly it roused the British Govern- Even the 'smalter European ment, and later the British people countrim were prepating. Only here to-day, possibly saving to the urgent danger of a disarmed Britnin cherished the dream. And it Britain in a rapidly arming world. was our impotence in the face of the lives of its pilot and five
To-day the whole story of the true Mussolini's threats that shattered a reason for Britain's rearming can be dream and opened our eyes. From
passengers. told, When the facts are realised that moment until now we have been
James Diamond, 22-year-old they show with startling clearness rearming. why our Naval Estimates were in- Events abroad, one shock after involuntarily
bakery employee, found himself creased last year by £21,000,000,
thrust another,
into a or
has revealed the urgency of hero's role on his first airplane more than 25 per cent.; why we are the need for larger, stronger fighting! spending mare than £10,000,000 on forces
flighthon new naval construction; why our
8ai£y-clila Hitler's invasion of the Rhineland beneath the fuselage of the total expenditure for defence has and his reintroduction of conscrip: plane of Walter M. Blake, Kone up to £200,000,000 A year. tion, Mussolini's deftance of sanc And why a defence loan of £400,- tions, the rapproachement between commercial 000,000 is called for.
the Latin and Teuton dietators, and and a landing wheel folded These enormous costs and more Germany's alliance with Japan have back while Blake was taking that must follow have been forced shown what chans could result from passengers_on__a_trip over. on as by our neighbours, Vast as opposing force with weakness,
the loan may appear it is only half |
the sum that Germany has: spent |
on armaments in single year.
The
"Unarmed" Diplomate
Pensacola.
flier, gave way
Diamond Mrs. C. R. Hutchings,
The
Mediterranean mablitsallon Weakness in armaments is the true Mrs. M. W. White, and A. A. and was the turning point at the end of reason for the reverses that British L A. McArthur, brothers, all of the period in which Britain was diplomacy has suffered in the last Pensacola, were making a ten-minute heading for disaster. Universal dis year or two. Our
diplomats have scenic trip in Blake's plane, armament brought about gradually been like unarmed policemen among pilot prepared to land when he saw by pact and treaty was a dream that gangsters with their guns In their his ground crew waving to him Britain had fostered since the end of
frenziedly. the Great War.
We led the world in that direction, scrapping naval ships, reducing the air Beet, and maintaining only the skeleton of an army. In 1032 we -were actually spending less on arms
than in 1025,
hand.
When Mr. Anthony Eden asked Hitler questions Hitler knew that
Blake finally discovered the ho could keep him walking for
trouble, but was perplexed as to what the answers,
to do. He could not jand his plane But
with the damaged gear and he could Britain that phase
the rearmament of not, leave the controls to repair the
of history come to an end. As the Mediter- could pilot the craft.
has trouble, since none of his passengers While Germany remained weak, ranean mobilisation was the turning and while Mussolint was content point in Britain's disarming, so this
with
Blake borrowed a lipstick from one
to stay behind his own frontiers. year, this moment, sees the turning of his women passengers and scrawled the dream appeared to be coming point which restores Britain to its a request that a rope be lowered to
position as a world force.
old
him from another plane.
true. Yet even in those apparently Britain's strength is changing the peaceful years before the Abyssinian whole face of European diplomacy. Two navy planes tried unsuccess- Invasion the war drums had begun And the first tim of Brilain now, as fully to lower the rope to to roll. France was reorganising its before the armed race started, is to Blake's gasoline gauge stood at empty Blake. fighting force and had reintroduced slop the drift towards war, two years' service in the Army
after two hours of aimless flying.
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Even before the rearming pro-
In desperation, the pilot decided of British influence in European affairs has begun to be felt.
The knowledge that the British public are behind the Govern mont in their determination 10 be prepared for war is in itself assurance against such shocks a our prestige has suffered. Anything like another Rhineland coup or a Median crisis is regarded as
unlikely to- day. Sanctions would be
more
go over the side to repair the cable. Diamond, pleked because of his lighter weight, didn't think much of the idea, but agreed. Over he went, with the McArthur brothers holding his ankles. The pilo
pilot had
Improvised
a rope by tying several safety belts together. Henging dizzily, Diamond finally
hooked the Ine so that the landing wheel could be ne under a strut pulled back
Into place.
The fumes from the exhaust and
effective now than when they were the fact that he was watching the founded on sentiment and backed in ground from an extremely awkward the last resource by bluff.
Hoaro's Warning
A European war is seen abroad as
far less Ukely now than it was on
the day when the Brush Fleet
д
position mode young Diamond dizzy, but he stayed with his-task until it was accomplished.
Blake performed a perfect job of
steamed Into the Mediterranean with means made the Navy obsolete. If
24-hour
supply of shells. Sir Samuel Hoare
sounded
our sea communications were cut our. warning to prepare in the air when raw material for industry in three the food would give out in six weeks, and he pointed out that what was once months.
the most secure island in the world
had become the most vulnerable.
So besides reconditioning such production on a scale bigger than and Renown, the Admiralty is build- To-day there is equipment for monster battleships as Queen Eliza- beth, Barham, Warspite, Repulse, ing two new capital ships, ave nino super-destroyers, one
ever before.
Alrecatt production. has quadrupled in the Inst wo
been aft-carrier, abx sloops, and many
years.
all parts of the country, and more torpedo boals of than 20,000 men have been recruited used in war,
the R.AF.
into
New aerodromes have been built in small boats, including six motor a sort never get
The Air Baldi Precautions De- partment is producing 280,000 gas masks a month. Thero will soon ba one for everybody, D -In-every community the authori ties are organised, to deal with re- fighting, food storage, and other defence measures.
Planes that will reach the const from London in less than ten minutes, 400 miles-an-hour planes, carrying guns that fire. sets, and robet pilot-less planes -controlled by wireless-these are some of the latest developments. Now, Battleships
But Sir Samuel Hoare has pointed lout that aeroplanes have by no
Nearly 1,000 industrial firme, Str Thomas Inskip has reported, are ready to produce shells at 24 hours notice.
as the ship came to rest on the ground. When asked what his thoughts were
while he was hanging head down.
and sald
"I didn't like the looks of all those are trucks and ambulances they had brought out to the field."
Ottawa, Mar. 1.
ATTENDANTS at the Parla-
ported Members mong
mentary Library to-night re- n heavy demand among of the House of Com- for the worke of Shakespeare, causing many to wonder if the House was about to be treated to a deluge of quota- tions Conservative Leader Ben.. nett recently quoted Othello in reference to the abdication of former King Edward.
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