MILITARY SUPPORT

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLI, Issue 20335, 6 February 1936, Page 9

MILITARY SUPPORT

REPLY TO ITALIAN OUTBURSTS STRENGTH OF COLLECTIVE ACTION United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received February 5, 5.5 p.m.) RUGBY, February 4. In, the House of Commons, in reply to a series of questions, Mr Anthony Eden referred to the communications with other Governments on the question of military support to be afforded under Article XVI, Paragraph 111. The result of these exchanges, which had been brought to the notice of all the States represented on the Co-ordination Committee, was to reveal an identity of view in the interpretation of that part of the Covenant among the Governments of France, Great Britain, Greece, Turkey, Jugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Rumania and Spain. BRITAIN TAKES NO RISKS. MILLIONS OF GAS MASKS ORDERED. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph —Copyright LONDON, February 4. A “Sun-Herald message says: “The Government is expediting and extending the production of gas masks and hope that 30,000,000 to 40,000,000 will soon be manufactured, and stored in depots in every town and village, for quick distribution in the event of emergency. It is anticipated that by the end of the year the organisation will be completed throughout Britain, designed to deal with gas casualties. The Government meanwhile has acquired a country house and grounds for an anti-gas school, for training special corps of instructors, who will be drafted to all parts of the country to teach official bodies besides voluntary workers. Other plans include the preparation of a sudden expansion of hospital accommodation, and arranging first aid posts -in towns and villages. These precautions are connected with the Government’s great rearmament scheme.