VERY SERIOUS

Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 144, 19 June 1936, Page 9

VERY SERIOUS

MENACE OF GERMANY GHOWINd ARMAMENTS J REALISATION BY BRITAIN OBSERVER'S IMPRESSIONS fnitcl Tress Assnciation—lly Electric Telt» Krapli—CopyrisUt. (Received June 19, 11 a.m.) LONDON, June 18. ' The "Sun-Herald" news agency says lhat startling details of Germany's re-armament appear daily in European papers. The British For. eign Office considers that the seriousness of the situation is not fully comprehended by the public and cannot be exaggerated.

The "Daily Telegraph" sent its military correspondent, Major-General Temperley, to Paris, where he conferred with high French military authorities. "My two main impressions," says Major-General Temperley, "are the ever-growing danger of German armaments, and the need for complete Anglo-French solidarity. The French army is well prepared for all eventualities, and anticipates that the Eastern fortifications will hold out for months if necessary. Consequently, if Germany meditated attack she would probably turn the northern flank through Holland and Belgium. The Belgian army is insufficient to defend the eastern and northern frontiers, and the Dutch army is powerless. Consequently i England and France should give Bel[gium and Holland every possible material support. The German army i> now right against the Belgian frontier. Germany's army is increasing rapidly. It is openly said that Germany in a few years will be able to mobilise 300 divisions, 3000 tanks, and 6000 aero planes. Concrete fortifications have already been constructed in the re» occupied Rhineland zone, where heavy; guns have been introduced."