BIGGER BRITISH ARMY
THE TOTAL STRENGTH
NEARLY 500,000 MEN
(Independent Cable Service.) (Received March 30, noon.)
LONDON, March 29
The Territorial Field Army includes 80,000 men in the anti-aircraft force and other non-field units. Thus presumably the total Territorial strength of all units will be nearly 500,000 men.
Mr. Chamberlain's statement that he felt Britain could demonstrate that the voluntary system would answer all her needs is interpreted to mean that he is not introducing conscription.
The extent of Anglo-French cooperation is increasingly revealed. It is learned that General Georges, the right-hand man of General Gamelin, head of the French General Staff, has been in England incognito for the past fortnight, and that the Air Minister, M. La Chambre, is likely to come to London next week.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 75, 30 March 1939, Page 10
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