AIR ARMAMENTS
STARTLING INCREASES A POTENTIAL MENACE (British Official Wireless.) Rec. noon. RUGBY, Deo. 5. In the House of Commons, in the course of the disarmament debate, Sir Samuel Hoare, who was Air Minister in the last Government, compared tlie relative positions of the air armaments of leading powers. He stated that expenditure in the air had risen-since-1925'. in Italy by 23 per cent, in France by 52 per cent., and in tiie United States 'by 126 per cent., exclusive of the cost of civil aviation. In Great Britain it had been lowered by 10 per cent. Replying for the Government, Mr. A. V. Alexander agreed that a grave risk continued so long as nations refrained from making mutual progress towards disarmament. As long as such a reserve of possible and immediate inflammable aerial existed, so long would there be a constant danger of an outbreak of conflagration. Mr. Alexander said the present Government had divided a large portion of its time to Che matter of disarmament, and would continue to do absolutely everything in its power to that end.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17127, 6 December 1929, Page 7
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