MILITARY STRENGTH
AVAILABLE IN GERMANY
A FRENCH ESTIMATE
PARIS, December 13. General Debeney, a member of the Supreme Council of War, estimates Germany's available force of men for military training at' about 2,700,000, comprised as follows:— Regular Army 140,000 Time-expired men 60,000 Militarised police 157,000 Hitler's new picked troops 100,000 Nazi Storm Troops .... 1,000,000 War soldiers under forty 1,300,000 General Debenvy, asserts that the Beie.h has more than double the number of motor-cars authorised under the Versailles Treaty. Ho estimates Germany's capacity for producing aeroplanes at the rate of 2500 a month, and infers from recent mpw^ions of nickel, tungsten, cotton linters, and other raw materials of munitions, that industrial mobilisation has begun.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 144, 15 December 1933, Page 9
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113MILITARY STRENGTH Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 144, 15 December 1933, Page 9
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