DEFENCE PLACED FIRST

Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 August 1938, Page 8

DEFENCE PLACED FIRST

FRENCH PREMIER’S WARNING Two Million Germans Under Arms MOBILISATION BY ANTICIPATION By Telegraph. —Press Association.—Copyright. (Received This Day, 1.35 p.m.) LONDON, August 25. The “Daily Telegraph’s” Paris correspondent says M. Daladier, privately addressing the executive of the Radical Socialist Party, cited figures showing that French production at present was lagging behind Germany's. A modification of the forty-hour week is imperative to make up leeway. He emphasised the dangers of sterile discussion, pointing out that Germany had two million men under aims. Her war strength would remain at this figure for three months. Though not actually a mobilisation, it was a sort of “mobilisation by anticipation,” giving Germany a flying start in the event of inter - national complications. The Government, therefore, was obliged to make the urgency of the situation clear to the public and to emphasise that national defence must be placed before every other consideration.

PARTY RESOLUTION

EXPRESSION OF COMPLETE CONFIDENCE. SOCIALISTS DEMAND MEETING OF PARLIAMENT. (Recd This Day, 1 p.m.) PARIS, August 24. The Radical Socialists passed a resolution expressing complete confidence in M. Daladier and declaring that a national collective effort was more than ever necessary in view of the fearful disproportion between, production in France and that in a dictatorship where everything was sub-

ordinated to military preparations. The adaptation of the forty hour week to the exigencies of the national and international situation could not be regarded as an act of recession. The Socialist Party executive decided to demand the immediate summoning of Parliament. DOCK STRIKE SPREADS. (Recd This Day, 1 p.m.) LONDON, August 24. The “Daily Telegraph’s” Paris correspondent says the Marseilles dock strike has spread to several other ports and also to Algeria. It is likely to affect Corsica and Morocco.