WAR SUPPLIES
PREPARATIONS IN SOUTH AFRICA MUNITIONS FACTORY AND AEROPLANES Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright CAPE TOWN, February 11. (Received February 12, at 10.30 a.m.) The Government is taking a census of war materials in South Africa and has formed a War Supplies Board to decide fthat could be manufactured in the Union in the event of it being cut off from the rest of the Empire and bow to mobilise without paralysing the civil population. Imperial Chemical Industries has secured a contract to erect a munitions factory at Pretoria. Britain is supplying 100 Hawker Hartebeest aeroplanes at a nominal cost of £2OO each. Another hundred will bo built at Pretoria, thereby enabling 1,000 pilots to be trained. One flight of interceptor fighters has been ordered. The Government is acting on the principle that the best insurance for peace is preparedness for war.
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Evening Star, Issue 22571, 12 February 1937, Page 9
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141WAR SUPPLIES Evening Star, Issue 22571, 12 February 1937, Page 9
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