GERMANY’S ARMY
BIG EXPENDITURE.
MORE THAN BEFORE THE WAR. SURPRISE IN FRANCE. " ’f~ BY CABLE—rRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. Received 11.10 -am. to-day.' PARIS/Jan. 6. France is surprised at Germany’s defence budget of £35,000,000. 'lt is pointed out that for her skeleton, army of one hundred thousand men, deprived of tanks .aeroplanes and big guns, Germany will spend more in 1928 than, ish© spent before the war on the Imperial -
army of 700,000 men. Critics air© concentrating on an item of £140,000 for the maintenance of gas masks, and ask f repains include gold plating.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 7 January 1928, Page 5
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