ARMS & MEN
SOUTH AFRICAN DEFENCE PLANS HON. O. PIROW’S OUTLINE. HIGHLY TRAINED LAND FORCES. (Recd This Day, 12.15 p.m.) CAPE TOWN, September 7. The Minister of Defence (the Hon. O. Pirow) announced that the Government was spending £5,000,000 additional on arms and defence works, and a million on coastal defences, over a period of three years. The most necessary equipment would be purchased through Britain. Mr Pimw said the Union was training land forces likely to be superior to any enemy they might meet. The equipment of the Air Force would bear comparison with anv inside or outside the British Commonwealth. At least two harbours were being fortified more strongly than in any other Dominion. The Government aimed at mobilising a thousand pilots and 137.000 troops. Conscription would produce a further 150.000. The Government would never sanction the training of natives to use arms, but they would be used for all except actually military duties. Selected labour battalions from.the Rand mines, operating under skilled ininers, with an unlimited quantity of dynamite, could be of great military value.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 September 1938, Page 8
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177ARMS & MEN Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 September 1938, Page 8
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