ENORMOUS COST OF ARMAMENTS
REPORT OF LEAGUE OF NATIONS SIX HUNDRED MILLIONS IN EUROPE STAGGERING INCREASE IN TWO YEARS United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received March 10, 5.5 p.m.) GENEVA, March 9. Defence expenditure of £600,000,000, compared with £400.000,000 in 1934, will be made by England, France, Italy, Poland, Czecho-Slovakia, Jugo-Slavia, Roumania, Belgium, Austria and Hungary. No figures are available for Germany, but it is believed that the estimate of £1,000,000,000 is exaggerated Russia’s expenditure is estimated at £800,000,000.
Belgium is the only nation whose expenditure has dropped since 1934.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/THD19370311.2.59
Bibliographic details
Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20673, 11 March 1937, Page 9
Word Count
90ENORMOUS COST OF ARMAMENTS Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20673, 11 March 1937, Page 9
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Timaru Herald. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.