STRENGTH INCREASED.
THE CZECHOSLAVIAN ARMY.
AIR. AND MECHANISED! FORCES,
(United Presß Association —OopyrlghtJ PRAGUE, January 17. General Moravec announced that since 1933 Czechoslovakia increased her frontier fortifications sixteenfold and doubled the number of aeroplanes, adding two air regiments .and 135 heavy bombers. The number of tanks had been increased twentyfold, bringing the total to 1500, and 60,000 troops., 5 , The general added that including a ..regiment of Dragoons,- .four, .battalions of cyclists and a battalion of mounted artillery, the mobility of the army- had been increased by 30 per cent, and its firing capacity doubled,, , ',.V, -
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 58, Issue 84, 19 January 1938, Page 5
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