STRONGER DEFENCE.
SOUTH AFRICAN POLIC.Y
INCREASE IN AIR FORCE
(United Press Association—-Copyright.) PRETORIA, Jan. 22.
Mr O. Pirow (Minister for Defence), in his speech at the Burghei Commandants’ Conference, announced that the South African Government was erecting a factory in Pretoria, for the large-scale manufacture of heavy guns, tanks, armoured cars, and bombs. - At first it will manufacture lorries, but it will be convertible for the manufacture of war materials in the event of hostilities. It has also been arranged for private firms to supplement supplies of bombs, shells, and ammunition.
The Government is completing plans for a great force of fighting aeroplanes, and also of transport aeroplanes to help in the supply of the Bushveld brigade in the northern deserts.
He added that South Africa had no agreement with Portugal, but could not allow an eastern nation to occupy Lorenco Marques, which, was within bombing distance of. the Union’s gold mines and ammunition factories.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 58, Issue 88, 24 January 1938, Page 6
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