Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 November 1940 — Page 16
{ MEXICO BUILDSITS BEST ARMY, NAVY
Infant Fleet, With 400 Officers and 4000 Men, Does a Good Job of Patroling Thousands of Miles of Coast.
By WILLIS THORNTON Times Special Writer .
Mexico, Nov. 14.—The best army Mexico ever had, and an infant navy just beginning to sit up
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The army, 52,000 strong, is better equipped and trained than ever before, and may triple in size within a year as result of a compulsory training bill recently adopted. The navy, almost as little known in Mexico itself as in the United States, is badly ungler-nourished. But this infant fleet is now under the control of a professional navy department which is earnestly trying to build*it up. It is putting up a game struggle to patrol the thousands of miles of remote coastline which offer hideouts for possible fifth column activities. With present facilities of 400 officers and 4000 men, it admittedly isn’t doing the job effectively.
Pilots Have No Planes Up to a year ago Mexican naval
vessels had been in charge of the|
army. Today the /Department de la Marina is one of the busiest
places in all Mexico, Smart “gobs” pace before its entrance. Immaculate officers hurry down the stairways. There are even the spic-and-span uniforms of naval aviators, trained by the army to fly, though as yet they haven't a single plane. What they have is ten new and three old coast patrol boats similar to our coast guard cutters, four somewhat heavier gunboats, two transports, a couple of heavier ships now laid up and out of operation, and some smaller craft. What they need is a few modern destroyers, a mosquito fleet of torpedo boats and a small but good naval aviation arm Unless the United States helps, the chance of getting them is small. For on a budget of 16,000,000 pesos a year ($4,000.000) this navy department not only runs its ships and trains its men, but. supervises yards and docks and regulates the fisheries industry and the merchant marine. The latter| is also still largely on paper. The regulation of fisheries gives the navy some control over Japanese fishing boats, which, especially along the Lower California coast near Ensenada, present the same problem -that they have farther north. Such boats are not allowed in Mexican waters without a license issued by the navy, but the patrol is so inadequate that occasional violation is likely.
Dreaming of Destroyers
Plans are under way for establishment of a marine| corps of five battalions totaling about 2000 men for coast and base | defense and landing operations. ut that, too, is a dream like the| ships to be commanded by the 150 cadets at the Vera Cruz naval academy and the 150 merchant marine officers training at Mazatlan. ’ Capt. David Coello Ochoa, secre-tary-general of the Marine Department, has the weather-beaten face and narrow eyes men| acquire from hours on the bridge.| He and his chief of ministry, Roberto Gomez Maqueo, have ambitious plans for a really effective coastal navy. When it was suggested that per-
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cently sent to England, Captain Coello’s eyes took on the faraway look of a sailor gazing into some beautiful sea-mirage, and he whispered, “That's what we dream about.” The Mexican army, on the other hand, is the best Mexico has ever had. There are 52,000 officers and men, and every year sees an increasing number of professional officers and well-trained and equipped troops. The reluctance of army officers to be drawn into the recent election squabble reflects this. It is likely that two-thirds of the officers in the army favored Almazan, the candidate declared defeated. In former days many would have rushed to revolution. But the American spirit of an army at the disposal of the civil authority is replacing the old Mexican tradition of an army as president-maker.
Young men hoping to make a career of the army are slower to pack what may prove to be the wrong horse, and thus end a promising life. Purse Maneuvered
The bloc of 30 army officers in the Chamber of Deputies and six in the Senate assure that the present army budget of 96,000,000 pesos ($24,000,000) will be greatly increased in 1941. This is necessary to plug gaps in the army equipment, now weak in transport, antiaircraft guns, tanks and airplanes. Mexico has today only about 50 airworthy planes, and these are of 1930 vintage. The United States has on hand plenty of planes, obsolescent for our uses, but suitable for Mexican needs, and far better than those now on hand. A deal for some of these has been discussed but never conclusively. Mexican army officers now visiting the United States as part of the Pan American Army inspection tours are probably no strangers to U. S. Army ways, as contact between the two armies along the border is cordial and frequent. The younger officers, especially those trained at the Chapultepec academy on a professional basis, are frequently admirers of American military ways. Under the Mexican conscription bill passed this year, the size of the active army and trained reserves is expected to be tripled within a matter of months. : Mexico, competent military authorities believe, could with a little help become capable of stiff defense against any threat but a fulldress invasion by a major power.
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FT. BENNING, Ga. Nov. 14 (U. P.).—Five enlisted men here have the most envied position at the post. Their job’s sleeping. They test the “better field sleeping” equipment being given trials by the Infantry Board Test SecREAD
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Almazan Waits ‘Call From
NEW YORK, Nov. 14 (U. P.).— Gen. Juan Andreu Almazan, who claims to be the rightful Presidentelect of Mexico, was waiting today for “a call from my people” to return to his homeland and take over. Almazan charged in an interview that he had been “counted out” by Government-sponsored forces backing Gen. Manuel Avila Camacho.
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TWO BRASSY THIEVES
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. Nov. 14 (U. P.).—Vester Pearman, 20, and Ernest Marcell Nelson, 21. pleaded guilty to theft of $35 worth of brass from the Southern Railway yards. Circuit Judge Robert J. Wheeler sentenced them to five years in prison.
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