Inadequate!

Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 7007, 17 November 1932, Page 7

Inadequate!

Germany's Brusque Dismissal

FRENCH SUPREMACY REAL AIM

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Received Wednesday, 10.30 p.m. BERLIN, Nov. 16.

An official Gorman broadcast brusquely announced that the Government regards the French disarmament plan as inadequate. Authoritative circles declare the scheme aims not at world disarmament but at the political organisation of Europe according to French ideas and would perpßtuato French political supremacy because the Powers not guaranteed security would he compelled to seek French protection.

LONDON, Nov. 16,

Tho Times’ Berlin correspondent says the only point Germay approves is the standardisation of European armies with an Implicit acknowledgment of Germany’s rights to the renunciation of part five of the Versailles Treaty as a discriminatory statute for Germany.

Battleship Holiday Ended

FRANCE ORDERS SUPERCRUISER. Received Wednesday, 9.50 p.m. LONDON, Nov. 16. The Daily Telegraph’s naval correspondent says the French Government has ended the battleship holiday by giving orders to lay down tho keel of tho battlo cruiser Dunquerque, the first capital ship built for the French Navy for nearly 20 years. She has a displacement of 26,500 tons with eight 13-inch guns, so the Dunquerque is tho most powerful battleship ever built except the Hood. Her guns have a range of 23 miles. It is later proposed to build two more Dunquerques. Italy is also experimenting with a battle cruiser with eight 15-inch guns. Finally the Dunquerque prejudices the British plan to limit capital ships to 22,000 tons. America’s Hew 10,000-tonner Received Wednesday, 10.30 p.m. PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 15. Tho Indianapolis, the first 10,000-ton cruiser completed sinco the London treaty, was ceremoniously commissioned to-day. A communication from the Secretary of the Navy (Mr. Adams) was Tead which said the new tonnage must bo laid down to maintain the Navy at Treaty strength . What Britain Suggests GRADUAL ABOLITION OF MILITARY AIRCRAFT. LONDON, Nov. 15. Britain’s plan, which is being disclosed at Geneva to-day, includes the abolition of military aircraft by a principle which admits that complete abolition is not immediately practicable and hence proposes stages, the first of which is an immediate drastic reduction of military planes.