Insisting on the gigantic proportions of Britain's rearmament pro-gemma, he specified that orders for new warships placed since April, 1935, total in tonnage about half that of the entire fleet at that time.
"We are beginning to see the results today in the powerful new cruisers and destroyers, along with a lot of smaller craft, which are joining the seagoing fleet. Our enormous programme of battleship construction and reconstruction, meanwhile, ensures our continued supremacy in the class of capital ships."
Concluding his address, the Premier expressed the hope that all "peoples will finally consent to settle their differences without recourse to war. There is a great deal in prospect which still calls for watchfulness, but the Government are not asleep and every month which passes adds to the probability that we will come safely through our troubles."
In the earlier part of his speech, Mr. Chamberlain made an appeal to "some qld time Liberals who have not yet Yprown in their lot with the Government" to reconsider their attitude. "I cannot see anything inappropriate or difficult about their ce-operating with us when I think bout the social reforms that we have carried out, and, above all, of our conduct in foreign affairs, where the largest measure of national support is so pre-eminently desirable."—Havas, Satisfaction In Rome Rome, July 3.
Leading political quarters here appear to be particularly satisfied at the British Premier's speech at Kettering yesterday. In his address, delivered before a meeting of Conser-votives, the Prime Minister gave a brief outline of his foreign policy and Britain's armaments programme.
Local circles laud Mr. Chamberlain's "most liberal policy," repeating praises which are heaped upon him almost daily by the Fascist Press. It is stressed here that Mr. Chamberlain's views on the question of nonintervention in Spain are little different from those held in Italian diplomatic quarters.—Havas.
Soviet Tanker Captured Rome, July 2.
The Spanish Nationalist cruiser, Canarias, captured a Soviet tanker, the Chernoff, off Valencia when the Russian vessel was stocked with 6,000 tons of oil The Franco ship proceeded to tow its prisoner into the harbour of Malaga, the Italian Press reports to-day,—Havas.
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