Small Eastern Nations Arming
EAST INDIES AND United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—-Copyright. SINGAPORE, Feb. 6. Information received from Batavia shows that the East Indies are spending 30,000,000 guilders on the reinforcement of their defences in 1937, including the expansion of defensive measures against aerial attack. Siam's 1937 revenue is estimated at £10,000,000 of which nearly £3,000,000 is allocated to the Defence Ministry. Naval vessels are at present being built for yiarn at Italian and Japanese dockyards and bombing aeroplanes in Aim-
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/MT19370208.2.51
Bibliographic details
Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 32, 8 February 1937, Page 6
Word Count
81Small Eastern Nations Arming Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 32, 8 February 1937, Page 6
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Manawatu Times. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). 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.
Log in