GOOD PROGRESS

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 85, 12 April 1937, Page 10

GOOD PROGRESS

RE-ARMAMENT PLAN

COMPLETION IN FIVE YEARS

BRITAIN'S HOPES

(British Official Wireless.). \ '■• -"■" (Received April: 12, '2.25 p.m.")'." .', ... ; LONDON, April;.ll. Sir Thomas Inskip, Minister' for ■Go ordination'of Defence, in a speech-last night said that he hoped the' Government would be able to complete.,tha five-year re-armament programme within the allotted, period. -Thei:pr<> gramme. was being carried out, on: ,th« whole with great and' noteworthy isuccess. . ■" :. ■' _■■.',: .;- • ■.;. . , : ':kr;-'--

A reserve of shells was steadily accumulating, he said, and the-1:--Ad-miralty had nearly completed arrangements for acquiring the necessary supplies of fuel for the Navy. Guns; air frames, air engines, and a multitude of scientific appliances were.nearing big deliveries.

. Referring to a statement recently published in a newspaper that there was scarcely more than • a.- i ortnight't supply of wheat and flour in the coun« try, Sir Thomas said that there was no reason for supposing that there Twas not something like three months' supply.

Referring to the world outlook,: ha said, that until the League of Nation! became what they had dreamed of, the British Empire held the fort as rthe greatest pacifying force in. the world today. Britain had never been finer in temper or more unshaken in spirit than today. What gave peculiar strengthen the Government in1 this grave time in the history of the world was that th« nation was substantially united. :