PEACE INSURANCE.
WAR PREPAREDNESS.
South Africa Making All Ready In Case. Press Association—Copyright. Received 11.10 a.m. Cape Town, February 11. The Government is taking a census of the war materials in South Africa aud has formed a War Supplies Board to decide what could be manufactured in the Union in the event of it being cut off from the rest of the Empire, and how it. would mobilise its forces without paralysing the civil population.
Imperial Chemical Industries. Ltd., have secured a contract to erect a munitions factory at Pretoria. Britain is supplying 100 Hawker Hartebeest aeroplanes at the nominal cost of £2OO each, and another hundred will be built at .Pretoria, thereby enabling 1000 pilots to be trained. One flight of interceptor fighters has been ordered.
The Government is acting on the principle that the best insurance for peace is preparedness for war.
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Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 358, 12 February 1937, Page 5
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144PEACE INSURANCE. Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 358, 12 February 1937, Page 5
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