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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 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

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 Mediterrancar 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.

smaller

European

The official part at St. Patrick's Ball. Lady Caldecott is seated in the middle of the photograph.

-King's Studio.

Air Novice Mends Parliament

Disabled

Plane

In Mid-Air

Our newest cruisers were less powerful than Italy's. Our Pensacola, Fla., Feb. 28. rcraft-carriers and flying-boats less well-equipped.

A dangling youth hung out 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 ment, and later the British people, countries were preparing Only here-to-day, possibly saving to the urgent danger of a disarmed Britain 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. toid. When the facts are realised that moment until now we have been they show with startling clearness rearming.

ION.

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James Diamond, 22-year-oldi bakery employee, found himself why our Naval Estimates were In- Events abroad, one shock after involuntarily thrust creased last year by £21,000,000, granather, has revealed the urgency of hero's role on his first airplane Into 3 more than 25 per cent,; why we are the need for larger, stronger fighting flight when a safety cable spending more than £10,000,000, on forces. new navatconstruction why our "Titler's invasion of the Rhineland beneath the fuselage of the total expenditure for defence has and his reintroduction of conscrip- plane of Walter. gone up to £200,000,000 year. tion. Mussolini's defiance of

M. Blake, And why a defence loan of £400,- tions, the ruppruachement between

commercial flier, gave way 000,000 is called for,

the Latin and Teuton dictators, 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 chaos could result from passengers on a trip........over. on us by our neighbours. Vnst as opposing force. with weakness.----- the loan may appear it is only half

Pensacola, the sun that Germany has spent on armaments in a slagle year. was the turning point at the end of son for the reverses that British L. A. McArthur, brothers, all of the period in which Britain was year or two. Our diplomats have scenic trip in Blake's plane.

diplomacy has suffered in the last Pensacola, were making a ten-minute heading for disaster. Universal dis- armament brought about gradually been like unarmed policemen among pilot prepared to land when he saw by part and treaty was a dream that gangsters with their guns la their his ground crew Britain had fostered since the end of the Great War.

"Unarmed" Diplomats

Diamond, Mrs. C. H. Hutchings,

The Mediterranean mobilisation Weakness in armaments is the true Mrs. M. W. White, and A. A. and

We led the world in that direction, scrapping notel ships, reducing the air fleol, and maintaining only the skeleton of an emy. In 1932, we were actually spenting less on arms than in

While Germany remained weak, and while. Mussolin! was content

hand.

landing the ailing plane without ac- cident. One of the women fainted as the ship came to rest on the ground. When asked what his thoughts were

while he was hanging head down, Diamond le

"I didn't like the fooks of all those fire trucks and ambulances they had brought out to the field,"

Quotes Shakespeare

Ottawa, Mar. 1.

TTENDANTS at the Parlla-

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ported a heavy demand among Members of the House of Com- for the works of Shakespeare, causing many to wonder if the House was about to be treated to a deluge of quota- tions. Conservative Lender Ben- netl" recently quoted Othello in reference to the abdication of former King Edward.

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frenztedly, When Mr. Anthony Eden asked

Blake Hitler questions Hitler knew that

anally discovered the he could keep him waiting for

trouble, but was perplexed as to what the answers.

to do. He could not. land his plane But with

with the damaged gear and he could the. rearmament Britain that phage of history has trouble, since none of his passengers

of not leave the controls to repair the: come to an end. As the Mediter-could plot the craft. ranean mobilisation was the turning point in Britain's disarming, so this

Blake borrowed a lipstick from one

him from another plane.

to slay 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 request that a rope be lowered to true.

old position as world forec. Yet oven in those apparently Britain's strength is changing the peaceful years before the Abyssinian whole face of European diplomacy. invasion the war drums had begun And the first aim of Britain now, as

Two navy planes tried unsuccess fully to lower the rope to Blake. Blake's gasoline gauge stood at empty

to roll. France was reorganising its before the armed race started, is to after two hours of almless Gying.

fighting force and had reintroduced stop the drift towards war. two years' service in the Army.

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Even before the rearming pro- gramme is completed this strength

nt British Influence In Europeango over the side to repair the cable.

affairs has begun to be felt.

The knowledge that the Briti publlo are behind the Governe ment in their determinallon to be prepared for war is.in itself assurance against such shocks as our prestige has suffered.

In desperation, the pilot decided to ask one of his male passengers to Diamond, picked because of his lighter weight, didn't think much of the iden, but agreed. Over he went, with the McArthur brothers holding his ankles. The pilot had improvised a rope by tying several safety belts Anything like another Rhineland finally hooked the line under a strut together. Hanging, dizzily, Diamand coup or a Mediterranean crisis is so that the landing wheel could be regarded as extremely unlikely to- day.

Sanctions would be more

pulled back into place. effective now than when they were founded on sentiment and hacked. In the last resource by bluf.

Hoare's Warning

the fact that he was watching the The fumes from the exhaust and ground from an extremely awkward position made young Diamond dizzy, but he stayed with his task until it was accomplished.

Blake performed a, perfect job of

A European war is scen abroad as far less likely now than it was on the day when the British Fleet steamed into the Mediterranean with means made the Navy obsolete. If a 24-hour supply of

Sir Samuel Hoare

our ses communications were cut our warning to prepare in the air when raw material for industry in three re sounded the food would give out in six weeks, and he pointed out that what was once months.

the most secure island in the world

So besides reconditioning such monster battleships as Queen Eliza,

had become the most vulnerable.

To-day there is equipment for both, Darham, Warspite Repulse, production on a scoic ever before.

bigger than and Renown, the Admiralty is build- Aircraft

ing two new capital ships, five) production has quadrupled in the last two years. aircraft-carrier, six

been cruisers, nine super-destroyers, one Now aerodromes have been built in small beats, including by many

all parts of the country, and more torpedo bonts of a sort than 20,000 men have been recruited used in war. into the R.A.F

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Flanes that will reach the coast from London In less than ten minutes, 400 miles-an-hour. planes, carrying guns that fire shells, and robot pilot-less planes - controlled by wireless these are some of the latest developments.

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The Air Raid Precautions De partment is producing 280,000 gas masks month,. There will soon be one for everybody...

In every community the authori ties are organised to deal with fire- fighting, food storage, and other defence measures,

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