Evening star., 1934-11-27
FRENCH PASS HUGE
DEFENSE BUDGET
Approve s732,O73,0OO, With
Navy and Aviation Sums
Leading.

Copyright. 1884. by the Associated Press
FARIS, November 27.-The French
Chamber of Deputies today completed
its approval of defense budget for
next year totaling approximately
32,o73,oOO.
1t quickly agreed to navy and avia-
tion budgets as presented by the re-
spective ministries and heard ths
government advocate plans for in
creased aviation developments as a
mainstay Of the French military ma
chine.
The budgets passed today we're as
follows:
Navy-2,967, 900 900 francs (approx-
imately $l95 800 ,o00).
Ayiation-l. .655, 65.435 francs (ap-
proximately S109. .296 .o0O).
Last Friday the Chamber approve
an army budget Of 5,689.2l5895 franz
approximately 1914, ,337 000l, and a
emergency appropriation for M
army equipment of 300 100000 fran
approximately $50, 2,640,000
Stand on Warships.
Francois Pietri, the minister Of G..
navy, avoided mention of the ne,
35,000-ton battleships of Premer
Mussolini Of Italy when he asked for
the navy appropriation. but said he
preferred stronger light Warships un-
less bigger ones should become in
dispensable."
"A weak navy would be heresy."
declared Pietri He promised the
deputies the navy would have
strong air feet.
The ministers, in asking the aviation
appropriation, said the French air
fleet was full of obsolete" types of
airplanes. but Victor Denain. the min
lister of war, announced he was en-
barking upon a three-year plan for
recognizing aviation manufacture.
He said the danger Of enemy air
raids destroying Frances airplane fac
tories had caused him to determine to
reorganize the industry and scatter it
over the country as Germany already
has. He said France has numerous
Ns.N 1AANs eAC Va ODSOlGlI lyPSS.
Planes for Troops.
1t was divulged that aerial trans
portation of troops are to be developed
in Frances colonies and that the first
squadron for such transportation will
soon operate in Algeria. Denain said
the policy will be to compel each avia-
ton company to be complete, but that
they must keep separate their various
plants for such manufacture as that
Of motors and fueelages.
He said he intends to have the Gif-
ferent companies take their factories
cut OF Paris and place them in various
provinces IN order 10 avoid their total
destruction should there be wartime
raids into the capital. The govern
ment. he said. will spend $50 900 0Go
francs approximately sic 500 0O0) iE
the next three years in executing this
concentration within the industry
and 'the decentralizing of factories"
The quick obsolescence of airp,anes.
which has caused France to have what
he terms an inefficient air fleet. has led
Denaln. he said. to adept a policy of
i,
well-oreanized and widely distributed
factories to make quick manufacture
and keep the models constantly up
10 Gate.
Formidable Fleet Planned.
France was revealed to be cool to-
ward the idea of competing with the
ltaAan 35Oo0-ton battleships, but in
tends to build up formidable aviation
feet as an auxiliary arm Of the navy.
After the adoption of the naval
budget Minister of the Nayv Pietri
told the chamber.
France ought not to build yerv big
ships. but they ought to be strongly
protected ones
He disclaimed any intention OF
weakening the Mediterranean naval
base and asserted. I'VE are plentifllIv
supplied with light ships and SUPER
abundantly with submarines" He ad-
mitted, however. that the whole navy
Is dlscontented with its aviation"
Pletri said he was working closely
with Denain to give France strong
naval aviation ard disclosed plans 10
provide the aviation carrier Bearn with
Neutrality-suspicious. airplanes.
The minister Of the navy told the
chamber that while the naval tonnage
OF France today can be reckoned AT
80 per cent below its tonnage of 1914.
1t is only IA per cent inferior in fight
ing strength to its power in the early
days of the World War.