CANADA’S DEFENCES
LARGE INCREASE APPROVED. [by CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] (Received April 21, 2 p.m.) VANCOUVER, April 20. The purchase of two hundred aeroplanes and four destroyers, raising the latter to six, was announced by Mr. MacKenzie King. Aircraft personnel will be doubled to 3500. Four minesweepers are under construction. Priority will be given to the Pacific coastline. The militia will be completely reorganised, with the addition of four armoured car regiments, twenty-six machine gun battalions, and six tank corps. (Summer training arrangements for fifty thousand men are completed. Defending, the policy, Mr. MacKenzie King stated that by historic evolution, Canada’s external policy now demands no commitments of war, except by Parliament. Advance commitments were definitely excluded.-
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Greymouth Evening Star, 21 April 1938, Page 7
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