Dec.
At question time this evening in the House of Commons Mr, Novi Chamberlain, the Chancellor of abroad" were primarily responsi for the continued weakness of sterling during recent weeks. He explained that these factors wore not under the control of the British Government and that they coineided with heavy seasonal payments in respect of imports. He refused to view with apprehension the recent tendency of exchange.—Reuter, Washington, Dec. 4.
According to the annual report
Undersecretary of State for War, bmaitted to Congress by the rhe United States has 1,000 aero" planes in the Navy and 3,476 in the Orders, aye Joan, pineed for
ud 302 kilometres per hour res-flying at the rate of 44: vand - bombing
pectively.
The Army has tested a tank mounted on wheels and caterpillar tractors capable of 96 kilometres:
hour on the road and 48 to 64 lo metres per hour across fields.
The regular army consists of 1 (000 officers and 118,756 men. The territorial army has 190,000" men. and officers, and the reserve army 108,000 officers and men.—Havas, Madrid, Dee. 3.
The need for gearing the Spanish lanny toa high pitch of efficiency was. emphasised to-day by the Pre-minier, Senor Agana, when in his feapacity of Minister of War, he introduced in" the Constitatent [Cortes a bill providing for the lereation of an efcient corps of non-commissioned officers, to be filled from the rank and file.
Senor "Antara, declared that though Spain had at present nothing to fear from any. foreign enemies, there was every reason. to reform her standing army along odern lines.—Trans-Ocean Kuo 1 Sve ni eon rar will be headed by the Rigi dear hate Mr, Baldwin's View His Maree eres
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