GERMANY’S BIGGER ARMY

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20671, 9 March 1937, Page 7

GERMANY’S BIGGER ARMY

INCREASES IN TANK COMPANIES REPORTED SHORTAGE OF STEEL IN BRITAIN United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph- Copyright LONDON, March 7. The “Sunday Times" says: "Germany is forming two pew tank regiments, by which, possibly, she is planning to create a fourth mechanised division. She already has six tank regiments, comprising 250 tanks each, two of which, with a reconnaisance group of armoured cars, a mechanised cavalry regiment and an artillery regiment, form a mechanised division able to advance ten miles per hour as a whole, while scouts move 20 miles per hour. These three divisions possess high concentration fire, and are the most outstanding features of the German Army. Germany is also forming additional artillery units, but delayed fulfilment owing to the shortage of officers. STEEL SHORTAGE IN BRITAIN CAUSING SERIOUUS ANXIETY United Press Association—By Riectrlo Telegraph Cqpvrlghi LONDON, March 7. Sir Thomas Inskip, in a speech at Newcastle-on-Tyr.e, said the steel shortage was causing anxiety. He foreshadowed the erection o< new buildings, and the reconstruction of the old to enable the Government to complete the rearmament programme.