RELATIVE STRENGTHS
SIX GREAT POWERS.
RUSSIA’S 11,000,000 MEN
A GERMAN ESTIMATE. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Independent Cable Service.) Received February 21, 8.5 a.m. BERLIN, Feb. 20. The military publication Deutsche wehr, estimating tlie relative war capacities of other Powers, gives the following list of military air strengths: — ’Planes Men
The estimates of British ’planes are two thousand higher than last year and Italian only two hundred more, while France is given three hundred fewer. The British figures do not include the Dominions. “A reliable estimate of the armed strength of the British Empire is hardly possible,” states the paper.
Russia 9000 11,000,000 United States . 3700 2,500,000 Britain 6000 2,000,000 France 5000 5,500,000 Italy 4000 2,000,000 Japan 2700 1,500,000
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 71, 21 February 1939, Page 9
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