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FRENCH DEFENCE
PROGRAMME
Millions to be Spent
PARIS, September 7.
While approving a rearmament
programme providing for an expen
diture of 186 million pounds in the
next four years, the Blum Cabinet
decided to make every possible
effort to achieve an international
convention for the limitation of
arms.
The Foreign Minister (M. Delbos)
will continue discussions with the prin
cipal Powers. If his object is achieved
and arms limitation is set at a suffi
ciently low level France, presumably,
will modify her new programmes.
Meanwhile, these are France's reply
to the German conscription extension.
Cabinet has authorised the expenditure
of £1,330,000 on new naval artillery
improvements at important bases, and a
further 56 million pounds to be ex
pended in 1937 for improving the army,
navy, and air force, and for the organi
sation of a corps of specialists in de
fence against mechanised warfare.
M. Delbos revealed to the Cabinet
that the recent Franco-Polish conversa
tions had led to such an improvement
in relations between Poland and
Czecho-Slovakia that Poland had de
clared her fortified lines on the frontier
to be now unnecessary.
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