DEFENCE OF SOUTH AFRICA
DISCUSSIONS WITH MR PIROW REFERENCE IN HOUSE (British Official Wireless.) Press Association—By Telegraph Copyright
RUGBY, December 20. Mr Malcolm MacDonald was asked in the House of Commons whether opportunity was taken of Mr Pxrow s recent visit to London to consider the inadequacy of the arrangements for naval defence of South Africa in time of war. H© said the • object ot 31r Pirow’s visit was to discuss certain technical aspects of defence in South Africa, including naval defence. Questions were settled as the result or the discussions, but as to details he could not anticipate any statement Mr I irow might make after his return to South Africa, since that was a matter for the Union Government. . Mr MacDonald added that the Union Minister of Defence recently announced very considerable expenditure with regard to defence, and a good deal of the money involved was in relation to naval defence.
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Evening Star, Issue 23147, 22 December 1938, Page 11
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