GERMANY'S ARMY.
Stronger Than It Is Supposed
To Be.
COSTS MORE THAN PRE-WAR,
("Times" Cables.) (Received 0.30 a.m.)
PARIS, November 23.
"Lo Journal" correspondent declares that the German official army of 100,000 men is stronger than is supposed, the number of privates being 38,000, corporals 38,000, sergeants 20,297, staff officers 619, including 39 generals, and 106 brevet-colonels. There are 596 phantom companies apart from regular companies of the Reichswehr.
The annual cost of the army is £35,000,000, whereas the old Imperial Army of 900.000 men cost £30,000,000.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 279, 24 November 1928, Page 9
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