“ARMAMENTS RACE”

Hokitika Guardian, 16 October 1933, Page 6

“ARMAMENTS RACE”

THE DOMINIONS AND JAPAN

“DAILY HERALD’S VERSION.”

(United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.)

LONDON, October 14

“Dominions Join the Nbw Armament- Race” appears on the “Daily Herald’s” front page triple-column heading over a story staying that Australia and New Zealand are swiftly developing armed forces under a liaison, plan between Britain ‘and themselves, and also with the approval of the British Government. , ,

This is the latest development, in the Far,, Extern situation, which is becoming- increasingly menacing. The VDaily Herald” narrates the plans of Australia, New Zealand and South Africa as reported in cable-s. It alludes to Japan’s -aggression in the Pacific, and her demand for a more powerful following upon her successful attempts to make a pact with Holland, ‘in return for concessions in Dutch New Guinea, where the Japanese hoped to lay down a system of dis guised air bases. The editorial says: “These new Australian naval programmes and the African defence programme aire parts of a world movement. The nations, world-wide, a>re re-arming-The mad race i s beginning again!”