War Resources of Germany

Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 46, 25 February 1936, Page 7

War Resources of Germany

quicker production than BRITAIN. SOVIET PREPAREDNESS. LONDON, Peb. 23. "There would be a lack of British statesmanship if in the event of war we engaged in opposition to Germany," said Lord Londonderry, speaking at Durham. He added that when the German Air Force completed its training it would probably be the strongest in the world. Germany had the advantage of aircraft and armament factories which were under Government control and could turn out material far quicker than Britain .because what it- took Parliament months to achieve Germany could do by a stroke of the pen. The Daily Telegraph’s Moscow correspondent says that the eighteenth birthday of the Red Army was celebrated by sweeping claims of invincibility on land anti in the air. Moreover, the naval programme ensures that Russia will soon be as strong on the sea. The Pravda declares that the Soviet is ready to light both Japan and Germany single-handed. Ev(gi the railways, which hitherto were regarded as the weakest point in Russia’s defences, are now described as the army’s twin brother, and ready to handle all strategic problems. Admiral Yerukhimovick, the commandant of the navy, says that the coasts are now impregnable. Franco-Soviet Pact Received Monday, 7.35 p.m. PARIS, Feb. 23. Cabinet to-morrow is expected to consider the possible German reactions to the ratification of the FrancoRussian Pact and the prospects of a conference of aerial and naval forces to which Germany will be invited. Ministerial utterances to-day indicate that the Government lias no intention of abandoning ratification. Even Germany is Afraid Received Monday, 11.10 p.m. LONDON, Feb .21. The Paris correspondent of the Times, recalling that the British Government on the advice of the Crown law officers decided that the Franco-Soviet Pact did not infringe Locarno, otherwise the French would not have signed it, says the French would not barter Locarno against any conceivable treaty the present or predictable future could offer. France is confident Germany will think carefully before proceeding with a dangerous and unjustified treaty-breaking m the Rhineland in face of the solid Anglo-French front. The Manchester Guardian's Berlin correspondent says the failuie of German diplomacy to enlist British influence against the pact has lessened the German warmth toward England and revived allegations of hypocrisy. Whatever arguments are adducible the wickedness of Germany’s neighbours, it is realised here that rearmament in defiance of Versailles would be accomplished at a heavy diplomatic price. Encircled more firmly than Imperial Germany in 1914 and more severely so in the economic sense, Nazi Germany witnesses the rebirth of a Franco-Rus-sian Entente and greatly fears a repetition of history by the renewal of an Anglo-Russian Entente.