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STRONG FRENCH DEFENCE £190,000,000 TO BE SPENT PARTS, Feb. 2. Passing n vote of confidence in the Government bv 405 votes to ISO, the Chamber of .Deputies, authorised the expenditure of £190,000,000 for a comprehensive defence scheme, of which £140,000,000 is to be expended in The next three years.
-M. Daladicr, Minister of Defence, confirmed the extension of the Miginot. line.along the Swiss frontier, and along the Belgian frontier to Dunkirk.
He congratulated Britain or. modernising her defences, adding that if a dictator declared war, he would soon realise the soundness of France’s position. France's defeat, would be Europe’s agony. All her neighbours wer-c arming, and France must not remain inert and fall an easy prey.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19240, 4 February 1937, Page 5
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