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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22741, 29 November 1935, Page 6

GERMAN REARMAMENT TERRIBLE FIGHTING ENGINE (Feom Oub Own Correspondent) (By Air Mail) LONDON. November 2. Mr Winston Churchill is making the subject of German armaments his very own. In an election speech at Woodford he said: — "Nothing shall silence my voice or slacken my efforts to bring home to our peaceful people what is happening so close to our doors and to rouse them to put themselves in a condition of reasonable safety before the fatal words ' too late' are written upon the pages of our long and glorious history." It was true, he said, that German rearmament haunted him night and day. " How can I avoid feeling this with no knowledge and experience? " he asked. " I do not regard Germany as necessarily an enemy of Britain. On the contrary, 1 hope and pray that our two nations may never again be brought into a deadly antagonism. " But when I read the statement in the newspapers, which General Goering is reported to have made, that the German munition factories are working night and day in three shifts, I recognise that these are almost the very words which I have, on several occasions, used in warning the House of Commons of what is going forward across the North Sea. " When I know that Germany is spending much more than £800,000,000 a year in warlike preparation, that they are ruining their finances and depriving the German people of pork and butter and other foodstuffs to turn the whole natiou into the most prodigious and terrible fighting engine the world has ever seen, I cannot help asking: ' For what is this terrible prepartion made and what awful event hangs over the future of Europe? '"