BRITISH ARMS

Grey River Argus, 17 February 1933, Page 4

BRITISH ARMS

BIG INCREASE EXPECTED. (Aus. & N.Z. Cable Assn.) LONDON, February 16. The •'Daily Telegraph’s” political correspondent affirms that the next estimates for the British Navy Army and Air Force will show a total in crease of some millions. He says; It will be impossible to repeat the cuts made last year. Unless further naval construction is undertaken in this and succeeding years, the strength of the fleet will fall to a dangerously low level. The cost of the Army will be higher by a million. Arms Exports PROPOSED INTERNATION CHECK. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, February 15. Answering a Parliamentary question Sir J. Simon (Foreign Secretary) said that on the initiative of the British Government, an cehangc of views had taken p’aee between the Governments of the United Kingdom and of the United States, France and Italy with a view to an agreement between them to prohibit the export of arms and munitions of war to the Bolivia and Paraguay. In anticipation of any prohibition of a more general character that might be arranged through the League of Nations efforts to bring about early action by international agreement were being continued, but had not yet succeeded. Replying to a supplementary question. he expressed the blief that if an arrangement could be established in regard to Bolivia and Paraguay, it would extend.