FRENCH ARMY
FEWER MEN FOR SERVICE. PARIS, July I. i It is intended to reduce the French forces in Morocco owing to an expected shortage of men for the French army. In reply to a request to fix a date for the discussion of several interpellations on recent military operations there?, M. Daladier, the Premier, admitted in the Chamber that French losses had been heavy. The number of killed, chiefly officers and noncommissioned officers, was seventy, while 107 had been wounded. The purpose of the operations, ho explained, was two-fold: 1. There was the pacification of the country to achieve, in which force had sometimes to be used. 2. In view of the fact that during the next few years the number of men available for military service in France would fall heavily owing to (he decreased birthrate during the Great War. it. was necessary to reduce the military occupation of Morocco as far as possible. The object of the French Government, the Premier added, was as hitherto, to aid the development of the inhabitants of that country by peaceful means.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 14 August 1933, Page 8
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