DEFENCE OF EAST INDIES
i PRECAUTIONS BY HOLLAND ] I U.P A— by Electric Telegraph—Coovrlght , LONDON, Ist March. 1 The correspondent of the “News : Chronicle” in the Hague says that the Colonial Minister, .Mr Welter, told the | 1 Lower House that the Dutch East Indian * army was being equipped with the most modern weapons. Tlve defences of Soura- ( hay a were being streugl heiied, and the fleet would he augmented if the international situation became worse. The Government, however, did not fear 1 that Japan would be aggressive in view 1 of the good Japanese-Dutch relations ex- ( isting for centuries. |1 j(
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 2 March 1939, Page 7
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