PACIFIC COASTLINE
CANADIAN DEFENCE MEASURES AUGMENTED PROGRAMME Pre«a Association—By Telegraph—Copyright VANCOUVER, April 20. (Received April 21, at 1.15 p.m.) The purchase of 200 aeroplanes and four destroyers, raising the latter to sis, has been announced by Mr Mackenzie King. The aircraft personnel has b6en doubled to 3,500, and four tninesweepe'rs are under construction. Priority is given to the Pacific coastline. The militia has been completely reorganised, with the addition of four armoured car regiments, 26 machine gun battalions, and six tank corps. Summer training arrangements for 50,000 men have been completed. Defending his policy, Mr Mackenzie King stated that by historic evolution Canadals external policy now demanded no commitments to war except by Parliament. Advance commitments were definitely excluded.
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Evening Star, Issue 22938, 21 April 1938, Page 11
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119PACIFIC COASTLINE Evening Star, Issue 22938, 21 April 1938, Page 11
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