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IMPERIAL DEFENCE PROBLEM Every Man For Overseas Duty Could Be Found In The Colonies; "Empire Pacific Fleet"

MATELOTS IN

A HURRY

London, Jan. 29. The British South Ameri

Airways Avro York plane "Star Glitter" left Lon- don today for Athens to pick up 22 Greck sailers, waiting to join their

at Welling

for, New Zeal

The flight-probably - the longest charter contract ever cutrică out--has been freided on to save the great cost of The niti remaining immobile,

Reuter.

UNRRA To Get War Planes?

Washington, Jan. 29. Representative

Debate In House

Of Lords

London, Jan. 29.

Drawing attention to the contributions to be made

by the United Kingdom and the Colonies to the solution of problems of Imperial defence, Lord Strabolgi, the Labour Peer, said in the House of Lords tonight that the real problem of Imperial defence was whether Britain could maintain a standing Army of one million men ̈ and a strong Navy,

He hoped there was no truth in the report that a.

large British Army would be stationed per- manently in East Africa. Troops there, he said, would be stationed too far away from the pos-" sible danger areas to form a strategic reserve: each soldier would cost three times as much as if stationed in Great Britain.

He presumed that the Gov-, man-power problem to which ernment in future, would make the Government were giving much greater use of colonial | more attention than hitherto troops.

was the provision of food for Lord Trenchard, former Britain.. Projects were Marshal of the Royal Air Force | elaborated for making much nud one of its founders, feller use of some parts of |

being

BEVIN TOLD TO #SLOW DOWN”

London, Jan. 29.1 The Foreign Secretary, Mr. Ernest Revin, 18 under constant medical observation. because of a mild heart ail- ment resulting from high blood pressure, today,

was learned

A Government sourcć said that “Mr. Bevin'a condition is, not regarded as serious,” but that he was under doctors' orders to "slow down" and to rest at frequent intervals.-

United Press.

French Note On Germany

Paris, Jan. 29,

M. Georges Bidault, French Foreign Minister, told

the

thought that as a contribution Africa for food production. French Cabinet today that

Ross Rizley said today that he planned to investigate charges; that the War Assets Administration

all three services which were gave 27 military trans-ecnstantly overseas could be port planes to UNRRA found in the Colonies. for shipment to Yugo-:

lavia and China..

to easing the manpower posi- † Reuter. tion in Britain, every man for

He suggested that schools for preparing men should be started in places like Nigeria He told reporters he understood, and Africa, adding: "Within five aircraft were carmarked fort Yugoslavia mi for China, lewo ar three years you could added that he did not know how go a million men or more."," many were, actually delivered.

He said it would also be

food for the Colonies to have

Republican leadership approved

men trained as mechanics is investigation of the surplus war woperty sales by the expenditures radar and such work.

committee, Rizley

sub

Battleships and battlecrui-:

sers, he thought, were liability, and "aircraft carriers

will not exist in the next war."

He said the investigation would probably come before the House for formal approval next week.

Rizley also said he had heard that aircraft destined for China They could not exist at was to go to private syndicates unless they had complete rather than to the Chinese Gov-superiority over the sea. craient.United Press. -

strategy depended » on strategy, he asserted,

"Look what

I've got!"

Ne2

air

air

Austrian

Treaty Held Up

France, had prepared a third uote on the German question, setting forth her views on the| internationalisation of basic industries and mines in the Ruhr.

im-

The publication of the note) and its transmission to the Gov. ernments of Britain, the Unit ed States and Russia was minent, M. Bidault siad,

notes Two previous French to the other Big Four powers on the German problem, ML" Bidault said. had been (1) the

a provisional organisation of Ger

London, Jan. 29. The Foreign Ministers' deputies today in three-hour meeting fail-many and (2) the organisation ed to agree on any one of the peace treaty,

of Germany after the signing article of the Austrian M. Bidault also informed the All treaty

Cabinet of the French views The Soviet deputy, M. Gusev, on the coming Big Four-meet- rejected as far too general ajing in Moscow. He said that proposal by General Mark he would Convey the final Clark (United States) for an details at the Cabinet meeting undertaking by Austria to ab- next week.-Reuter, stair from any act which was likely, directly or indirectly, to affect her status of indepen dence.

Empire Pacific Fleet, Lord Gifford, Conservative, asked the Government to cus- sider making the Colonies generous allowance of vessels # that local training could begin. An Empire Pacific fleet could be formed, and it would have a wonderful psychological effect among British people throughout the world.

Viscount Swinton, Conservu Live and former Air Minister Minister of Civil Aviation and Minister-Résident in West Africa, said that while every- one accepted the obvious truth that each Commonwealth Gov- ernment must take its own de- cisions, cooperation was needed in the Commonwealth.

Constitutional limitations. were no bar to effective co- operation. There should be a pool of knowledge and experl- ence- to which every Govern-

Gusev suggested that the American Wording would allow the interpretation that a threat to Austrian independence might come from any quarter! other than Germany.

treaty forbidding an anschluss between Germany and Austria and binding Austria not to un- dertake such a union.

The French deputy, M. Mau- rice Couve de Murville, argued that nothing in the United Nations Charter prevented Both Britain - und France voluntary repunciation of inde- advocated provisiona in the pendence-United Press.

Cooperation With U.S. "Unfriendly"

Washington, Jan. 29.

nient and the Commonwealth The Soviet: Chief of Staff, Marshal Alexander

should have the fullest access,

and experts of the Common-. wealth should work together la

sessing that knowledge Experience.

and

Replying to the debate. Vis- count Addison, the Dominions Secretary, said that must of

theer topica had been' Answer- ' ed in the discussions on the formation of a Ministry of Defence.

The Government's aim was to ensure that, the resources available for defence: were laid out to the best advantage in the terms of manpower, equip meat and weapons, and that the forces should have the most up-to-date equipment that Bri- tish ingenuity could provide Less Than Million Men'

Britain could not have an Army Navy or Aly Force of.a size that the country, was finan- did not expect that the future regular strength of the Army ncul be one million men. It would be substantially less than that.

Field-Marshal Vasilevsky, told

Viscount Montgomery, the British Chief of Staff, during the latter's visit to Moscow, that Russia consi- dered British military cooperation with the United States to be "unfriendly," according to "Newsweek" magazine, which last week pub- lished reports → later denied by the Soviet news agency-of a Montgomery-Stalin con- versation, wherein the Russian leader is said to have expressed doubts about the strength of the Anglo-Russia alliance.

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