WORLD’S ARMED FORCES
REPORT TO FRENCH DEPUTIES ARMY STRENGTHS COMPARED < < MOST FAVOURABLE LIGHT. ’ ’
(“Times” Cables.) Received 10 a.m. to-day. LONDON, Feb. 23. “The Times’ ” Paris correspondent says that a report on military estimates submitted to the Deputies envisages the Disarmament Commission’s discussions and presents the French cause in a most favourable light. The home army vote is shown at £38,000,000 and the overseas vote at £13,000,000, aggregating £600,000 more than last year. The expenditure has allegedly decreased by 10 per cent, since 1914. "'The United ‘States’ expenditure increased by SO per cent., Japan’s by 4S per cent, Britain’s decreased by one per cent., and Italy by 14. France compares her 552,000 men at home and overseas with Britain’s 570,000 regulars 277,000 militia and 43,000 in overseas formations. Italy' has 303,000 regulars and 110.000 police and militia.; Germany 100,000 regulars and 150,000 security police.
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Hawera Star, Volume L, 24 February 1931, Page 5
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