Capetown, Apr. 28.
Measures which, within the next five years, will give the Union of South Africa 1,000 pilots and an antitank battalion equipped with the most modern weapons and capable of being. transported 600 miles in 48 hours, were disclosed in Parliament yester= day by Mr. O. Pirow, Minisier for Defence. It was proposed, he declared, io form twelve squadrons of high speed multi-engined " bombers from civil aircraft.
Ultimately, he added, a common defence policy for the Union of South Africa and the whole of British Africa south of the Sudan seemed inevitable.
Industrial possibilities for war purposes were also being surveyed, he
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