REARMING OF GERMANY

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 70, 23 March 1935, Page 9

REARMING OF GERMANY

French Minister's Charges

farts', March 211 M. Maurin, Minister of War, told the, Chamber or Deputies Army Commission that the German army would shortly, number 720,000 while 70 per cent of German factories were making war material. The construction of machine guns was continued night and day in four shifts. Synthetic petrol factories had all recently been enlarged and were turning out their maximum and huge stocks of war stores were being formed. ,* Moreover Germany was turning out 15 aeroplanes daily.^ A communique says that .M« Maurin declared that Prance must keep 260,000 men - constantly with the colours. He promised to develop motorised formations, to intensify the manufacture of armaments, involvin. increased estimates for 1935 and subsequently. According to a deputy M. Maurin detailed French preparations to meet the situation. He said that contingents were now occupying the principal strategic points of the frontier defence scheme, troops having been drawn for it partly from interior garrisons and partly from a frontier where a watch was no longer necessary owing to the international situation* • The "Daily Mail's" Paris correspondent says that war plane factories ;ln "France are working at top speed following the Air Commission's approval of Government plans- to Increase air strength. Already £28,000,000 has been spend under M. Denain's three year plan to renovate the air antiy by the end of 1936. Now an additional £22,000,000 will be spent enabling the completion' of the plan by the i end of 1935 and providing between 4,000 and 5,000 fighters and bombers.