TO ARMS YE BRAVE!

Grey River Argus, 28 July 1925, Page 8

TO ARMS YE BRAVE!

SHAREHOLDERS.

Says a writer in Glasgow Forward: — ‘‘l write these presents by the whimpering of the Beaumont water and the bleating of the hill yowes in the heart of the Cheviots, cut off from the racket of a mad world, almost — but .iot quite—as if one were Amundcen on his’Folar ice. Away yonder, a disappearing speck on the Kirk Yetholni road, is I’ostie on. his bicycle. He had whistled as he brought his Budget, breaking the peace of the wide spaces with its tale of new intrigues by great statesmen, and preparations for a new alignment of the nations, a new hell’s broth, another glorious war. Already we had learned from an official League of Nations report that our Armament Kings are exporting annually some £5 millions worth of munitions of war.

To Spain we sold in 1921 no fewer than 4,842 cwts of guns, and 16,412 cwts of gun mountings. To Slant i.t 1920 wo sold 8,503 rifles. To Peru in 1020 we sold 2,500 rifles. To Siam in 1920 we sold 1,804 bayonets.

To Java in 1922 wo sold 1,109 torpedoes and submarine mine appliances. We sold guns to Spain—at a profit, of course, nt a profit—and now 1 read such accounts as this i.i the Daily Express, from its Tangier correspondent:

“A woman staggers into Tangier, half her face blown away. Another falls by the roadside, shot through the breast, at which she was suckling an

infant, born to find death before it smiled on life. Three countrywomen, hideously maimed by a concealed mine, lie at death's door in Tangier hospital. ’’ And . see in the Manchester Guardian (9/1 25) that Messrs Vickers have acquired a controlling interest in thd great Armament Trust just founded in, Rumanian territory. March mi, march on, all hearts resolved th twenty live per cent.