BRITAIN'S PLAN.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 219, 16 September 1939, Page 9

BRITAIN'S PLAN.

WAR CAMPAIGN. Enormous Organisation Of A Modern Army. NAZI METHODS CONTRASTED. United Press Association. —Copyright. (Received 12.30 p.m.) LiON'DOX. September 15. Outlining the enormous tasks necessary (o bring a modern Army into being, the Ministry of Information, in a communique, states: '"The lie has already been given to assiduous German stories that Britain intends to fight this Avar by the agency of her Allies. Britain did not do so in 1914-18 and will not do so to-day. "The organisation of the Army of 1939 will mark another big advance even on 1914-18. About live persons were required to keep one soldier in the line in 191$ and probably more are necessary to-day. "It must be remembered that the War Cabinet's announcement that it was framing plans on the assumption of a three years' war reflects the truth that the Army must not only be brought into being, but it must be kept in being. That is the difference between the British and German preparations. "The German preparations are again apparently based on the hope of a lightning war. Britain's are not." The Ministry's reference yesterday to the German assertion that the British casualties at Kiel were grossly exaggerated, concerned the German allegation on September ;» that 12 British machines Were brought down.