DEFENCE OF EIRE
GREATER ARMY STRENQTH
DUBLIN, February 16.
The Government has. decided on a yearly capital expenditure of £5,500,000 on equipment for defence and stores.
It is 'intended to raise the army's present strength o| 21,000 men .to 30,000, and to organise a defensive air Iprce, anti-aircraft, and mine-sweeper s/srvices, and air and land coastal military patrols. ;
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 40, 17 February 1939, Page 9
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58DEFENCE OF EIRE Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 40, 17 February 1939, Page 9
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