EAST INDIES DEFENCE
EXPENDITURE THIS YEAR SINGAPORE, Feb. 6. Information has been received from Batavia that the East Indies are spending 30,000,000 guilders on the reinforcement of defences in 1937, including the expansion of defensive measures against aerial attack. Siam’s 1937 revenue is estimated at £IO,OOO, of which nearly £3,000,000 has been allocated to the Defence Ministry. Naval vessels are at present being built for Siam at Italian and Japanese dockyards, and bombing aeroplanes in America.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23110, 9 February 1937, Page 9
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76EAST INDIES DEFENCE Otago Daily Times, Issue 23110, 9 February 1937, Page 9
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