1938-05-10 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY,

MAY

1938.

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BRITAIN SPENDS HUGE

NAVY AND MECHANISED ARMY

Determined To Protect Her Frontiers

By Joseph Grigg, Jr...

United Press Stag Correspondent

(Editor's Note: Great Britain, with wars being fought close 'to two vital parts of her empire, is spending a staggering sum on armaments, Joseph Grigg, Jr., of the London bureau of the 'United Press writes in another dispatch on war preparations

of the European powers.

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LONDON.

■REAT BRITAIN, FOR THE NEXT WAR AT A RECORD PEACE-

GREATERATE 15 SPENDING NEARLY £8 ON ARMAMENTS THIS YEAR FOR EVERY PERSON IN THE BRITISH ISLES.

STANLEY BALDWIN TOLD ONLY HALF THE STORY WHEN HE SAID: "OUR FRONTIER NO LONGER IS AT THE CLIFFS OF DOVER BUT AT THE RHINE" WITH WARS RAGING NEAR GIBRALTAR AND HONG KONG, GREAT BRITAIN NOW KNOWS THAT THE FRONTIER OF HER EMPIRE IS AS WIDE AS THE WORLD ITSELF.

She is determined to spend and spend until that fron- tier is protected.

As usual, most of the money will go to the British navy which guards the empire's lifeline.

There are 17,000 tons of warships under construction now, including five 35,000-ton battleships, five aircraft carriers, 10 large craisers, five cruisers of 5,000 tons each, 30 destroyers and 18 sub-

marines.

.

It is expected that 60 vessels will be put into service between April, 1939, and March, 1939,

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Afloat, Great Britain will be War experience. Great the world's strongest power.making progress,

Any air fleet that starts against But there are two other vital London will Into a "balinon matters that will worry her barrage" protecting line of on- when war comes-how to get chored blimps from which

The danger food and how to protect London, steel cables will dangle. the world's most vulnerable to target, against air raids.

heavy

to raiding alr men will be more

than physical. The barrage" тау force them

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to

fly higher than they normally

She intends to solve the food would do and thereby detract from problem the same way she the

the accuracy of the bombing.

solved the U-boat problem in Thirty million gas masks are in population the World war. She will rely storage for the civilian

and 10,000,000 more will be manu-

THE BOILING WAKE of the battleship Warspite as she turns sharply at full speed to avoid at- tack during the combined exercises. A ship of 30,000 tons, she has a speed of 25 knots.

FRANCE ARMED TO HILT CAN

MOBILISE 8,000,000 MEN

7 Tons Of Dynamite Set Off

Loveland, Colo.

A seven-ton charge of dynamite

on un elaborate convoy systefactured. Two anti-gas schools are was used to make a cut for a now and will arm her merchant men. training volunteers while a general road on the North St. Vrain high- Protection of London is not so training school for "Air Raid Pre-way which leads into the heart of

the Rocky Mountains. but out of her tragie World caution officers" opens noon,

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Ralph Heinzen, Boris bureau manager of the United Press, des. cribes in the following dispatch how France is preparing for the war that many European statesmen consider to be inevitable).

By Ralph Heinzen

United Press Staff Correspondent (Copyright, 1038 by United Presa)

PARIS.

EIGHT MILLION FRENCHMEN ARE READY TO SEIZE RIFLES AND BURROW INTO "CATACOMB·FORTS" TO DEFEND THE SOIL OF FRANCE.

THIS NATION, RAVAGED TWICE BY INVASION IN THE LAST 68 YEARS, HAS ARMED TO THE HILT. SHE DOES NOT INTEND TO BECOME THE BATTLE-GROUND OF THE NEXT WORLD WAR IF STEEL AND MEN AND MILITARY INGENUITY CAN PREVENT IT.

More than half of every franc collected in taxes is turned over to the army, navy and air force. Despite the swift changes in military strength because of the rearma- ment rade, France's army still is judged by experts to be the best in Europe. The fear that haunts every French- man is another invasion from the east. Out of that fear has developed the Maginot Line, a £80,000,000 system of underground forts that guards every inch of the Swiss valleys.

Thousands of men are working building roads leading out of the gates of Paris, wide enough to accommodate eight lines of auto- mobiles. Using those roads, the 3,000,000 inhabitants of the capital could turn Paris into a deserted city within a few hours.

Against land attack, France considers herself impregnable. She counts on her own and the British navy to guard her coast- line. Like all nations on the crowded continent of Europe, she is vulnerable to air attacks. That is why the general staff has taken extraordinary precautions to protect the civilian population of Paris and other cities against air attack.

Every office building in Paris mobilize immediately on the declara- must be equipped with steel or tlon, of war. wooden shutters so that no va- grant gleam of light will offer a target for air raiders.

More than any

other European Russin 思 #clf-sumelent country, when it comes to food and wor materials.

Buses are equipped with cur-

Almost every kind of miacral tains so they can be darkened.

¡needed to equip an army and navy Air raid cellars have been built in lies buried somewhere beneath her although much of it la un- courtyards of the foreign ministry, soil,

and all other developed. She grows no rubber but the ministry of war

government buildings contends that she now is manufac- Important France, if attacked, could maintain turing synthetic rubber and that it an underground government inde-is being widely used. finitely.

One of the great grain-growing "For 11 years the Bank of Francenations of the world, Russin had a has been building gold vaults, angood harvest in 1937 and undoubted- eighth of a mile deep in places, unly could feed herself if she went to der a subterranean lake,

War materials factories, once con- centrated in a 10-mile belt around Paris, have been decentralised and located in 100 cities.

war..

taken in

Air rald precautions have been nil large cities, but they scem to consist chiefly of propaganda gDE mask stunts and. In efficient

As this dispatch is written, 20,000 rather than a serious attempt to young men clerks, salesmen, office workers are preparing to go under provide shelters and mask protection ground to brush up on their know-for civilians-United Press, ledge of the mazca of the Maginot Lino. Many of these military re- servists will not see the sky for two weeks. They will take some of their moala five stories below the surface

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Swing inuale has been justified be- of the ground, and when they go fore ite eventual death, Joyce Barry, back to their jobs another group of 18, attributes her winning a. 568-mile reservists will move in. Those young cycling record to the fact that swing men are the backbone of an army of music kept her awake and pumping 0,000,000 which France could most of the way.

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