VERY SERIOUS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 145, 20 June 1936, Page 9

VERY SERIOUS

MENACE OF GERMANY GROWING ARMAMENTS REALISATION BY BRITAIN OBSERVER’S IMPRESSIONS ( Ey Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright! LONDON, June 18. The Sun - Herald news agency says that startling details of Germany’s re-arma-ment appear daily in European papers. The British Foreign Office considers that the seriousness of the situation is not fully comprehended by the public and cannot be exaggerated. The Daily Telegraph sent its | military correspondent, MajorGeneral Temperley, to Paris, where he conferred with high French military authorities. “My two main impressions,” says Major-General Temperley, “are the ever-growing danger of German armaments, and the heed for complete Anglo-French solidarity. The French army is well prepared for all eventualities, and anticipates that the Eastern fortifications will hold out for two months if necessary. Consequently, if Germany meditated attack she would probably turn the northern flank through Holland and Belgium. The Belgian army is insufficient to defend the eastern and northern frontiers, and the Dutch army is powerless. Consequently England and France should give Belgium and Holland every possible material support. The German army is now right against the Belgian frontier. Germany’s army is increasing rapidly. It is openly said that Germany in a few years will be able to mobilise 300 divisions, 3000 tanks, and 6000 aeroplanes. Concrete fortifications have already been constructed in the reoccupied Rhineland zone, where heavy guns have been introduced.”