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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1938.
Defence Japanese Soldier Is Rated
First-Class Fighting Man
Will Cost £350,000,000 This Year
The defence force estimates for 1938 have now been com- plated.
They provide for an expenditura of £350,000,000-the highest gure on record in peace time.
Of this £100,000,000 will be de-İ frayed out of the Defence Loan.
Sums that the various Defence De-! partments will take are:
Navy
Air Force
Army
Home Omice
£125,000,000 £113,000,000 £102,000,000 £10,000,000
The Home Office £10,000,000 will be for the first instalment of the
nir-rald precautions plans.
BUT EQUIPMENT MAKES
HIM
UNTIDY, SLOVENLY
By H. O. THOMPSON
United Press Staff Correspondent
Tientsin, Jan. 1.
The Japanese soldier at the front is one of the world's best equipped fighting mon,
There is nothing cheap or shoddy, or in any way resembling the flimster Japanese gadgets 'sold abroad, in what the Japanese soldier has at his disposal in actual combat. The Japanese at home has dainty, under-alzed possessions. Everything is on the smail side as befits a small people,
Not so in battle. The Japanese soldiers have German knap- For the Navy 40 new ships will be built, in addition to the 100 now sacks, French trench-coats, rifles resembling the American type, building, including three new battle-bayonets like those of the British-in short, they have used the best ships.
BIGGEST NAVY
points of each army in the world.
only 2
The uniforms are ill fitting, ones we were eating were Several thousund new RAF. The Japanese does not have the years old.
ALWAYS BOIL WATER planes are also to be built. But the Air Ministry insists that the exact same sense of military trimness number must be kept secret,
In addition 40 more aerodromes are will be made for an extra 50,000 In the Army estimates provision Territorials and un extra 30,000 men in the Regular Army.
to be Inid out.
Sixty regiments ATC to have machine-guns instend of rifles,
Also anti-tank unils are 10 established.
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By the end of the year the British Defences as a whole will be the most! efficient in the world. Our Navy and Air Force will be the biggest in thei world.
This man is not committing sul- cide, but He's merely 11 movie cameraman getting a new angle on the talest safety device introduced that other army men' possess. Water is a problem in China and by the Great Western Railway Officers, except where individual the rule of health here la always to England, enabling the driver
felt, boil water and never to eat anything "hear" his way along the track. raw which grows close to the ground. Near all caution signals is a ramp are not of the dashing variety. The Japanese were extremely careful which can be electrically energised personality makes itself
by the signalman. If the line is Their trousers are baggy, their about water. They sunk deep wells.
and disinfected the clear a bell rings at the driver's side boots are too big for them, their then altered tunies bulge at the back, they water. Where no wells were avall should the signal be at caulion" a able water was bolled, Food gathered
siren sounds and the brakes are use the choker collar and shun from the countryside were always automatically applied throughout the cooked and soldiers were told not to train. By means of this new safety the smart Sam Brown belt.
eat anything raw. The danger In dysentery, which caused such havoc device, trains will be able to keep among Southern soldiers in the Civil their normal speeds even in fog. War in America.
OFFICERS WELL EQUIPPED But on a cold morning at front the men have what it
the
takes
to carry on efficiently. The officer
The fighting qualities of the Japan- who seemed so sloppy on the streets ese army are debatable. There is FRENCH EXILE
individual courage. of Tientin a few days ago in a differno question of
21 fur-lined There is ample evidence that the
ent man now. He has
Britons' Heads skveless garment which leaves his Japanese soldier is as couragous as
Are Getting Bigger
Englishmen's heads 15215
His
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arins free, or a fur-lined jacket.
any living man. Perhaps he is too pistol, dispatch case. field losses courageous, for he is prone to make ammunition and canteen are trimly the issue an individual one, like the attached to his belt or slung over a samurai or Japanese warriors f
feudn! times, instead of relying shoulder.
waun conts, tearn work and organization. The soldiers have part camel-bair wool, hooded to It is said that the Japanese Arc getting keep off rain or snow. They button not good avintors. It is true there! Jarger, but they are carrying tess back in front so that the knees are are many accidents among filers in conditions there not impeded in heavy going. Their Japan. Weather
be partly responsible, This is disclosed in statisties com-comfort kits, wenpuns, emergency plied by Mr. L. C. Fincher, a London rations are securely stowed on them.my
The soldiers are small but husky, with contended by Japanese officials. The aviators did a neat bit of bombing hat expert.
around Tientsin, picking off objec- tives cleanly. But most of that bombing was done at about 300 yards, and the bumbinit abilities at altitudes were not tested,
weight on them.
Since the war the average hat sold strong teg muscles and shoulders in London has grown by two sizes, brand for their height. while the average weight has dropped from nearly 8 oz. to 4 oz.
Very popular are sports felt hats weighing only 2 oz.
These contrast with the door sale of heavy bowlers weighing 74 the heaviest hat made recently.
high
GUNNERY RECORDS SECRET
The artillery and supply trains
iest stood the
on the European model. They of North China's atrocious roads in splendid shape. The hurses were a problem. Thou- sands were brought over from Japan
The artillerymen are said to be but the strain of hauling heavy guns poor marksmen, although that would be a question of personal opinion on Just how much experience one had had with it. The Japanese do not publicise their Runnery records.
Part of the increase in size is due and cargoes through a foot of met
In some places a false depeniling to the habit, a relic of in-hatted war was killing. days, of wearing bendgeur further step plunged a horse up to its belly down on the head, but Mr. Fincher in mire. still regards the growth of hunds as remarkable.
dangerous
MAY END FOR
ABD-EL-KRIM
Moroccan Warrior Called Staunchly Pro-French Now In Report.
Paris, Jan. 28. During the recent meeting of the North African Coordination the Committee in Paris, in course of which former Premier Albert Sarraut, president of the committee laid down the general outlines of wide-scale reforms which are to be carried out in Morocco, Algeria and Tunis, the question of the eventual return of Abd-el-Krim to his mother- land was discussed.
ARMY RATIONS GOOD
The question was broached by M. Sales of top hats, probably due to
The Japanese soldier is better fed Excitability, inherent in the race. the Coronation, rose slightly-ast year, while out of every hundred hats than in former wars. In the first drawback. Japanese crowds Lucien Gasparin, member of Portia- had so few defeats in battle that they el-Krim has been in exile during the sold in fashionable shops three are Sino-Japanese conflict 50 per cent of stampede easily. The Japanese have inent for Teunion Island-where-Abd-- M. Gasparin pleaded them had beri-beri, Opera hats.
disease, caused by a diet deficiency, have come to think of themselves as past 11 years. which cripples the mascles. In the invincible, admittedly a dangerous cloquently in favour of Abd-el-Krim. Russo-Japanese war 85.000 Jupnacse attitude when coupled with the ten-He read a letter from Major Verines, soldiers suffered from it. Onielais dency toward individualism and ex-former eommander of the Reunion genddarmerie, in whose charge Abd- ay there has been none in the pre- cited actions in emergencies, sent North China campaign,
Unpolished rice has been
SWAM 105,000 MILES
Skipper IV, a grey nurse shark at the Sydney aquarium has just made a world record by completing tour years in captivity.
Lack of imagination is an asset, el-Krim was placed. Mujor Verines The Japanese soldier is not inclined states in his letter that he "could sub-to grumble about hardships or work personally guarantee that the senti- tituted for the polished klud and himself into a state of nerves overments of the Moroccan chief were now other items have been added to the the deprivations or even the horrors very pro-French." diet. On my visits to the front of war.
The Infantrymen work up a hely ate soldiers' rations and found them palatable and nourishing. There was zeal in their rushes. It makes them He has never been known to stop canned beef, canned ash, bean soup, hard to withstand. What the Japun- ere call "bushido," or code for military swimming round, and is estimated thrice and vegetables.
For emergency rations the men conduct, regards each soldier as have covered 105,120 miles, says Austral News. His diet is four carried, In cheese-cloth bags, hard-"human bullet." His life is not
lack biscuits in which essentint food important us the mission to which he pounds of smaller fish a day.
blended. Supply is dedicated. A soldier killed in The previous record for a shark in values had been.
ten officers told me the biscuits would re-netion is deified. There is no more captivity was three years and
main edible for 10 years but that the honourable death. months, niso at Sydney.
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in Loveliness
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AID TO FRANCE SEEN Verines continued by pointing out that in his present state of mind the return of Abd-el-Krim to Morocco "could not fall to be of the greatest use to us in fighting certain anti- now French propagandu which is being carried on in Morocco."
in further defence of Abd-el- Krim's francophile sentiments it was mentioned that his five sons all have received a truly French eduention in the Reunion college and that the eldest is soon to join the French army.
Replying to theso arguments, Sarraut said that he would give the question a thorough examination and that," a return Morocco-which has already been discussed several times should not be possible, I will nevertheless study the possibility of Abd-el-Krim's taking up residence In France."
PROPAGANDA Fight DECLARED In conjunction with this discussion the members of the North African Coodination committee examined the Increasing anti-French propaganda which in being carried on in Morocco. Shrrout said he was determined to figlit propaganda being carried on "by foreign powers." He said a plan for intensified counter propaganda by radio was being put into effect and that French authorities would not herliate to carry out wholeante ex- pulsions of the troublemakers.
Ile promised that everything would be done to better the lot of the native, both socially and economically, but the government, he said was determined to put down any subversive movement, from whatever political party it might come, with a Brm hand,
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