JAPAN’S ARMY
PROPOSED REDUCTION,
Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.
NEW 'FORK, March 15. (Received March 16, at 9,5 a.m.)
The Chicago ‘Tribune’s’ Tokio correspondent reports that the Japanese Army Reorganisation Bill has been drafted by the War Office and endorsed by the military authorities. It will be submitted at a special session of tho Diet in July. Tho Bill provides that the present standing array of 298,000 shall be reduced in various departments—tho infantry by 54,000, the cavalry by 2,3C0, tho field artillery by 17,000, the sappers by 1,700, and the heavy artillery by 600. Tho actual reduction, however, will be 51,800, as the following increases are planned:—Light artillery 3,300, railway engineers 300, aviation 260, mounted artillery 280.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Evening Star, Issue 17920, 16 March 1922, Page 5
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