CAPACITY FOR WAR
German Military Paper’s Estimate (Independent Cable Service.) BERLIN, February 20. Tlie military publication “Deutsche Wehr,’! estimating the relative war capacities of other Powers, gives Russia 9000 aeroplanes and 11,000,000 men ; the United -States 3700 aeroplanes and 2,500,000 men; Britain. 6000 aeroplanes and 2,000,000 men; France, 5000 aeroplanes and 5,500,000 men; Italy, 4000 aeroplanes and 2,000,000 men; and Japan, 2700 aeroplanes and 1,500,000 men.
The estimate of British planes is 2000 higher than last year and of Italian planes only 200 more, and France is given 300 fewer. The British figures do not include the Dominions. “A reliable estimate of the armed strength of the British Empire is hardly possible,” it is stated.
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 127, 22 February 1939, Page 11
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