Menace of Germany Very Serious

Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 144, 20 June 1936, Page 5

Menace of Germany Very Serious

Growing Armaments Watched by Britain

OBSERVER’S IMPRESSIONS

United Press Association—By Electrlo Telegraph. —Copyr igh t.

LONDON, June 18,

The Sun-llerald news agency says that startling details of Germany's rearmament appear daily in European papers. The British Foreign Office considers that the seriousness of the situation is not fully comprehended by the public and cannot bo exaggerated. The Daily Telegraph sent its military correspondent, Major-General Temperley, to Paris, where he conferred with high French military authorities. “My two main impressions,” says MajorGeneral Temperlcy, “are the evergrowing danger of German armaments, and the need for complete AngloFrench solidarity. The French army is well prepared for aIL eventualities, and anticipates that the Eastern fortifications will hold out for mouths if accessary. Consequently, if Germany meditated attack she would probably turn the northern fiank through Holland and Belgium. The Belgian army is insufficient to defend the eastern and northern frontiers, and the Dutch army is powerless. Consequently England and France should give Belgium and Holland every possible material support. The German army is now right against the Belgian frontier. Germany's army is increasing rapidly. It is openly said that Germany in a few years will be able to mobilise oOU divisions, 3000 tanks, and GQOO aeroplanes. Concrete fortifications have already been constructed in the reoccupied Rhineland zone, where heavy guns have been introduced.”