RECORD EXPENDITURE
ABOUT £1,400,090,000 IN 1936
LEAGUE ESTIMATE
(United Press Association—l).r Electric; Tclecrapli—Copyright.) GENEVA, December 26. League of Nations pxperts estimate that the world spent the record total of approximately £1,400,000,----000 on armaments in 1936. The League of Nations Armaments Year Book, in which it is stressed that the figures are indefinite owing to the secrecy which frequently surrounds them, records that there were 8,200,000 men under arms in 1936, of which Europe's share was 4,600,000, equalling the 1913 total. It is pointed out that the figures exclude semi-military organisations such as Black Shirts and Brown Shirts. The strength of the principal armies is: Russia 1,300,000, France. 740,000, Germany 600,000, Italy 500,000, Britain 196,000. It is estimated that at least seventeen battleships of between 26,000 and 35,000 tons will be built by the middle of 1937. Military aircraft in 1936 are estimated at at least 10,500 machines, with 5000 as reserves.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 154, 28 December 1936, Page 7
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151RECORD EXPENDITURE Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 154, 28 December 1936, Page 7
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