CUTTING AMERICA'S HUGE ARMY BILL.
COLOSSAL EXPENDITURE DESIRED BY WAR LORDS
Received Wednesday, 0.20 p.m. WASHINGTON, July 24
President Hoover has moved vigorously to check the mounting military expenditure of the United .States. Pollowing an inspection of the prospective budget of expenses in widen it is apparent the military programme by IWwould call for the lar-est war budge", in the world the President announced a plan to establish a special commission within the Army General Staff to reconsider the entire programme. He m dicated that the commission will lie composed chiefly of high ranking army officers. The President pointed out that the present expenditure in the United States for purely military purposes represents an increase of approximately 530,000,000 dollars per year over prewar expenditures for the same purposes, and measures now pending in Congress would call for further increases if favoured. The President emphasised the chief hope for tax reduction lies in prospective cuts in military expenditure.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 25 July 1929, Page 8
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