RUSSIAN OUTLAY FOR ARMS
Spending One-Third of Budget
The special correspondent of the Portuguese "Diarlo de Noticias" at Zurich sends to his newspaper some illuminating Jiguies of war expenditure on the Russian Army,
He says that the Supreme Soviet Council, at its last meeting in Moscow, decided upon an extraordinary credit for national de- fence of no less than 57,000,000,000' of roubles. At the pre-war average rate of 25 roubles to the pound, this works out to £2,280,- 000,000. This sum represents 31.7 por cent, of the entire budget,
The writer point out that Russia's expenditure of armaments has grown rapidly since 1934 on the following scule;
1034
3,000,000,000
HDB.. 8,000,000,000 1936. 1490,000,000 1037 22,490,000,000
1918 14,000,000,000 1939. 10,000,000,000 1540 57,000,000,000
25 Roubles Per Person The population of Russia (was) estimated at the close of the Polish campaign nt 183,000,000 inhabitants, not including territory annexed since then, nuch an Latvia, Lithuania, and Bessarabin,
Estonia,
It is calculated illat every Russlan eltizen, women and children Includ- ed, paya 85 kopeks a day, or 25 roubles
Q month, towards national defence.
Every able-bodied Russian pays | fom 20 to 22 per cent, of his wages for armaments. If he does not par ticularly nollee thin, it is because he paya by infirect taxation, so wide- spread in Continental countries.
Must Be Ready
Board For U.S. Arms
Big Four Begin
WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 (Reu- ter).—A supreme directorate for the United States defence pro. gramme to speed up arms pro- duction Was established President Roosevelt to-day.
by
The directorate comprises Mr Knudsen, 'Director-
The Russian Government, through William its Press and its wireless, daily ex- General: Mr Sidney Hillman, plains to the people that Russia is directly threatened and that antional the Labour leader, associate defence expenditure is essential. The Director-General; Mr Henry L. Russian wireless, In particular, Insists Stimson, Secretary for War; and at the Russian peoples "must be Colonel Frank Knox, Secretary ready at once to face imminent oud for the Navy, unexpected perils."
GERMANS' COLD COMFORT
President Roosevelt announced that the directorate had been given full authority to formulate and execute policies for armament production.
All That We Have"
By an executive order, President Roosevelt released to reporters statement signed by all four members
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FINNISH HONOURS-Not for months häs Field Marthal Baron Carl Gustave Man- acrheim, Finnish commander in chief, appeared in the news. But hora, as President of the Council of National Defence, he reviews troops in Helsinki, in a ceremony honouring officers killed in the war with Russia.
Polish War Prisoners
Work For Nazis
NEWS reaching Polish circles in London claims that Polish war prisoners are now being employed by the Germans in the re- construction of the German Baltie ports, destroyed in British air raids.
the first transport of 700 Ger Another dispatch states that man children evacuated from Berlin because of the air raids, has arrived in Poznan.
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Half of these children are being billete:! with Polish families, and are borne by the Poles, The remainder are being cared for
expenses
Radio Berlin states that. Wilhein
of the directorate in which they sald | by Nuzí offcials. that the task confronting them was "not only of critical importancy but Bardia Defence Called also one of surpassing urgency."
They promised all that we have" "A Lost Cause" to fult President Roosevelt's order LONDON, Jan, 7 (Reuter)-1o create an "arsenal of demaerney" n the United States, and entled for "A lost cause" is the phrase used co-operation from every person in the by the "Boersen Zeitung" com-country to make the arsenal adequate for the defence, of democracy and menting on the fall of Bardia.. freedom.
The newspaper is quoted by the ofcial agency which says "Cineral Bergonzoll is a tried soldier from the Spanish war and at Bardly his troops fought for a lost cause to hold off the British offensive as long as possible and give the Libyan Army time to re-group- task which they have performed against a cast superiority In men and materials.
VOLUNTEER ANNUAL
sian frontier,
Nazis Said Making
BETTER
ANTI-TANK GUNS
BRITAIN is concentrating on the production of a more power- ful anti-tank gun than any we have at present..
This is part of a programme of intensive training by the Royal Artillery,
The programme was embarked upon at the start of the war in face of an expansion to which
Petrol Cube the Germans had devoted seven
German
army experiments
leisurely years.
An elaborate system of Instruction
Frick, Nazi Minister for the Interior. With solidified petrol are report-combined the infiltration of peace has arrived in Warsaw on his wayed by the Berlin correspondent the officers into the expanded army to Lublin, which is close to the Bus-of a Swiss newspaper, the secret and supervision by visiting instruc-
fors of gunnery. having leaked out, it is alleged, It was working wonders when the owing to the indiscretions of withdrawal of the B.E.F. from France: French papers in occupied terri--with its consequent losses of men and material-necesitated what was almost a fresh start.
Yukon Ballad tory.
Hero Dead.
"Sam McGce From Tennessee"
The
Past Repaired
Now, however, the Royal · Regi-
The dry petrol, which is car- ried in cubes, has to be madent, after work which has put a fluid again before use.
great strain on all concerned, is satis- drivers are said to call itñed that it hus repaired the past, and "bruuselimonade," or efferves-that the gunnery branch of our de- cent lemonade.
| fences-including A.A. units-is em-
cient.
Lessons learned by the B.E.F. form part of new recommendations by War Office committees.
Especial Insistence is placed on mobility and simplicily,of organisa- tion,
Valueless for Planes
Solid or semi-solid petrol has been SAM McGee, whose name be-invented" about once a month for came renowned through a Yukon the past 10 years. The Air Ministry poem of Robert W. Service, is still geta frequent offers of the patent dead.
rights. The "Sam McGee from Ten- nessce," who actually was a native of Lindsay, Ontario, died in Beiserer, Alberta. 40 years after service wrote "The Crema tion of Sam McGee."
non-soluble in water petrol can be
High explosive shell is now used! to the exclusion of shrapnel, whose advocates have been finally van-
Proceeds of Sale The defenders were only over
To Bomber Fund come by a massed tank attack after
The seventh annual Year Book of Volunteer Defence they had run out of munitions. This the Hongkong affords convincing proof that in spite Corps has come off the press, and is of reverses in the subsidiary theatre possibly more readable than ever- of war in North Africa, the fighting the illustrations are certainly more
By means of some form of soap upleit of the Italians is the gume as highly spiced! The editor. for the
made into a jelly, in which form it sixth year in succession, is Capt. C.
is less inflammable and suffers less everyhile the Bellish gain a military de Saille Robertson, M.M. who has
from evapo
evaporation In the absence of quished after a battle of theories last-
it victory, the Italians gain a moral done the job well,
proper tanks can be transported in from the South African war.
The Germans, incidentally, neglect- victory.
Each unit has its special mention.
in lorries or ordinary trucks. "The only thing that is really im- brightly
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The poem teld how McGee was as occasion
But there is no saving in bulk; and (cd shrapnel during the Great War. portant and decisive is the battle formands, with
always "cold, but the land of gold before use the Jelly has to be lique.. number of photo- Britain which their troops are losing jgraphs and sketches appropriate to the
seemed to hold him like a spell." Bed and separated from the soap in -day-by-day-in-and-around-Britain text: There is a considerable amount McGee was supposed to have admitted Morcover the despatch of Germun of humour, some topieni allusions, that he was comfortably warm when Bir formations to Italy shows that jand some verse, All is realable, hopes of foreing decision by attnek- j and apart from the Year Book form- ing Italy with the whole strength of ing a souvente, It is also good reading the British Empire are illusory." The matter.
de-
This year, there is an added in-
Axis is a unit in politics, ideals and.centive towards its purchase. The above all, in military matters."
Swedish Comment STOCKHOLM, Jan. 7 (Reuter) "Burdin's fall is a particularly heavy blow for Graziant, who has now lost over half the land forces available for the defence of Cirenalca," writes the military correspondent of Stockholm's
fentire proceeds will be handed to the China Morning Post, Ltd. A nominal Bomber Fund, inaugurated by South charge of 25 cents has been made. but purchasers are invited to give more as they may wish,
The Year Book is obtainable at
PreserThin-makes-Il-valpeless-as.
his frozen body was being cremated. fuel for aircraft.
73 Years Old
McGee, 73 years old at the time of his death, was not spellbound by the search for gold, either, as his chief
occupation in the Yukon territory was
Nor
will he
be
copper mining. cremated.
Mr Service, when advised of the death of the character he made world- known, said he saw the name Sam McGee in a bank ledger in Witehorse.
Yukon Territory.
Chamberlain's Nephew
Killed In Air Crash
CRASHED-BUS-IN-
RAID JOY-RIDE George McNeil Dickson, of March- wiel, near Wrexham, who sat he had never driven a motor vehicle before, was fined £4, with £1 costs, al Chester recently for driving away double-lecker Corporation bus during an air raid alert.
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The police said the bus was Jeft in a street at ten o'clock. It was later found to have crashed into an
Dickson said he had been drinking.
IT was revealed recently that Flying
Officer Ralph Hope, twenty-eight-year-old nephew iron fence.. of Mr Chamberlain, reported
the Unicers Mess, the Sergeants He picked up the Iden for the poem Tidningen are so superior that Mess and Canteen and of all Com- frem o story fold at a dinner in 1906. killed in action, died in prevent-
The
pany Commanders, Hongkong Volunt-
the continuation of offensive operateer Defence Corps. Those wishing tlons is possible if supplies are to send the Book abroad, must do so ensured by sea--which can be done through the Publishers, Messi's Mil- unless strong Italian and German air
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units
"It is hardly kely, however, that
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Greenland Occupation
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GERMAN TROOPS IN RUMANIA Commander Appointed BELGRADE, Jan. 7 (Router). Service -Field Marshal List
of are: Germany's blitzkrieg experts, is to arrive in Rumania shortly with a staff of live generals to Life Under Uucle Sam take over the command of Ger- STOCKHOLM, Jan. 7 (Reu- man Troops there, ter).-American troops are | Bucharest dispatch to-night. "occupying" Greenland and Field Marshal List commended the American Police are posted in German troops in the Polish
pign. the town of Ivigtut, according Baron Manfred von Klinger, the to kryolite miners who have new German Minister to Rumania, is 1 Just returned to Copenhagen. due in Bucharest on Sunday.
RAYS
A Rumanian commission is
cam-
con-
They stated that communientions with Denmark, to which Greenland sidering various questions still pent- -belongs, have been practically broken | Ing between Rumania and the Soviet, off and that rationing of food had | including the repatriatlon of Bessura- been in operation since last Apeli bians from Rumania and Rumanians though there was no shortage,
from Bessarabla, Steamers of the Hudson Bay Com- | pany were carrying miscellaneous supplies to points in west Greenland. The miners travelled to Copenhagen by way of America, Portugal Germany.
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Flying Officer Hope was captain of the Lower Rats at Eton, won the Silver Challenge Stulls at Oxford, and the amateur seulling champion- ship of Great Britain. He rowed in the Oxford and Cambridge Bont-race and was a member of the University. mountaineering club.
POLE WINS D.F.M, The first British award to a Pole 0
for service in the present war was 19 0
announced recently. Flt.-Srat. 'Jozef 21 6
Frantisek, af. the Polish squadron, | R.A.F., receives the D.F.M, for des- 26 0
troying five enemy aircraft in. a week and displaying conspicuous gallantry In attacking superior numbers of German 'piones.
Teacher Discharged;
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LONDON, Jan. 7 (Reuter) -Au
Kenneth May, disowned by his offelal statement issued In Rome father for being n Communist,
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says that three of the British war-job as a teaching assistant at Wavell And Army
ships which bombarded Bardia were the University of California. LONDON, Jan. 7 (Reuter) ——
In addition, says the statement, a linve
The Board of Regents ordered the Orange growers in Palestine shown their appreciation of the suc-liner was sunk and two cruisers, a twenty-four-year-old gradunte
gunboat student's
€ discharge as cess of the Western Desert campaign submarine, destroyers, a by sending 10,000 cases of oranges, and a monitor wore badly damaged. member, declaring his beliefs
Unfounded Statements and grape fruits to the troops.
faculty position were "incompatible." A warm tribute to General Wavell "Heuter" learns in authoritativa himself is provided by an. Iraqi quarters In London that all these sheikh, who has given him a ceres Italian statements are wholly monial sword.
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