GERMANY'S WAR- LEVY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume L, Issue 15265, 1 April 1913, Page 7

GERMANY'S WAR- LEVY.

:,; :^tx-jmjm:for , aircraft. , . ■ TOTAL OF .33. J AIRSHIPS. • ' ■ ; ytiQ ;-.ARiLX.-vVOT|SB v ;. ' J ISSUE OF PAPER- MONEY. i. '\' ' '■'/'. "!',■ ■■" ■"',■' / ~ . ■'.''■"'■!':•,.■ ■.'. ,' : ,' I ,■" ' ' '•'■ ' ' • ' ■'~ . ; :'. ' ■•■.-'. . By Telegraph.—Pre«»A.B»oci«tlon>^CopyHjrht. , *. ' ' ■ ; Berlin, March 30. , : 9 Of the 1,000,000,000 marks (nearly „ £50,000,000),! which will be raised by I the German Army- Bill, .79,000,000 9 marks; (nearly £4,000,000) is for aif« ships and aeroplanes, in addition to 3 20,000,000 marks (nearly £l lt 000,000); 0 which has already been arranged. A ~ sum of 50,000,000 marks (nearly p £2,500,000) is intended for naval air- ; craft. • ,•":'■ '■'.:..■ 9 By January next Germany will u have 15 i first-class and ,l9 secondi ; , class airships. <; ... ,„."- - \t The vote of £4,000,000 for airships i, from the non-recurring taxes does i not include Bavaria's total of 1. 6,500,000 marks, nor does it include k the levy 1,000,000 marks of which *-b ', Government has given notice, but r which will probably be dropped, e A sum of 211,000,000 marks (about i- £10,500,000) will be expended in V fortresses, 230,000,000 marks (nearly * £11,500,000) in barracks, 71,000.000 marks (about £3,500,000) in artillery, 1 46,000,000 marks (over £2,000,000) in * rifle -ranges." and manoeuvre grounds; 0 38,000,000 marks (nearly - £2,000,000) in clothing, 31,000,000 (over £1,500,000) on horses, and 23,000,000 1 marks. (nearly. £1,500,000) on engi- '* veering. '■''. I ■ The e:dfa £12,000,000 for the war ■ <hte* : tIII ''x' securer! by the issue of ' | 'j&LW rurei'-rv of low denomis:^'ion, ■'!ari/i,', J, '>.'--ir' bfc stcv.od iu the JuliiS: Tower at Spandau.. J n '•'' '■••"•' •* I. OEBUANy'S MILITARY BTItBN«TH. s Major E. Morant. the military com*. . pendent of the Berlin Tapeblatt, attacks * the .military, agitators in Germany, who, ?in spite of the recent formation ,0f,.tw0., new 11 army corps, demand a creator increase of the army. Among other things, he com- > pares the number of men'whonii Germany . and Franco maintain > under anns, and arrives at the following, results :;—.; . t.End of 1911 Germany's estimated i strength, 595,554 men, actual , strength 601,029; France's emanated strength 564.910 men.' actual strength • about I 53G.0Q0; Germany's preponderance about : 70000 men.v, ■ : ' ~ • :■■ , : 2.< End of 1912 Germany's estimated i Btrcn&th ; 623,353 men. actual strength n 629.353; France's; estimated «treneth >»; 555,900 men, actual- strength about 520.000 0 • Germany's preponderance about •i : 109,300: men. >...■■> > ,-; :.;.;." ' 3. End of 1913: Germany ecßtunatod " streriirtli 635*285 men, ;'. actual strength, : 642.285 France's. estimated strength, ;, 563,506 men; actual strength 528 500 inert ; Germany's preponderance about 113,700.