New Supplementary Estimates Raise Expediture on Defence to £190,000,000 This Year No Relief in Sight Affected Area Widening London, July 9.
A STRIKING speeding up of Great Britain's re-armament pro-Washington, July Scaring heat for the fourth conse-gramme is revealed to~ lay statements accompanying, ecutive day to-day spread over an supplementary Army and Air Force estimates. lever-widening area in the states of Added to the previous supplementary naval estimates and the middle west and the great plains, [with thousands of acres of crops in the Budget provision for the three Services, the new estimates North and South Dakota, Montana, raise Britai 's expenditure on defence to about £190,000,000 this Wyoming and Minnesota already blackened and doomed to destruction. year.
The Secretary of State for Air says that the progress being The area worst affected by the @rought was in the Dakotas, where made in the construction of air stations already approved by Parlia-wheat was burned a fortnight ago ment is exceeding expectations. and where farmers are now watching The estimates include provision for the first steps in a scheme their corn shrivel under the heat. Tt to extend the supply of aircraft equipment by the erection of was hoped, however, that the corn factories in which aircraft will be manufactured during the present fom may yet be saved in most sections. period of expansion, and which will afterwards be available as The crop failure also threatened fa reserve source of supply in war-time. the, rich Wheat elds of "Canada's prairie provinees, where crops have Toms in the Army estimates in-Slready been destroyed by the merclude. £1,000,000 for machine tools, fand. £2,600,000 for war-like stores.
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