Paris, Oct. 12. The Ministerial Council to~ day sanctioned an increase of mately" £13,000,000) as the year's expenditure on national defence. The sum includes Frs. 887,500,000 for the Navy.
The cost of the French partial mobilization, during the recent crisis, is reliably estimated at Frs. 2,500,000,000 (nearly One must however whether National Socialist. Germany would accept Berchtesgaden and in Godesberg, he serts, kind of negotiation took place," the Prime" Minister, Mr. 'Chamberlain, in both cases return ing London' as the bearer of an ultimatum, "Whether in Munich substantial alterations is. the original Godesberg memorandum were achieved is debateable. his article far as Eng land is prepared to make concessions to Germany their extent should be clearly and precisely defined and that then the British Empire under circumstances. should go beyond these prescribed limite—Trans-
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