BRITISH ARMED FORCES.
2,500,000 AT END OF MARCH
952,000 MEN TO BE RETAINED,
THE ARMIES OF OCCUPATION.
Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (E«cd..9.80 p.m.) LONDON, Mar. 3,
The Army Estimates for 1019-20 amount to £287,000,000.
A White Paper estimates the maximum number of the army at the end of March, exclusive of those serving in India, at 2,500,000, which number will be rapidly reduced to 052,000, of whom 403,600 will comprise the armies of occupation of the Rhine, including France and Belgium, and 308,400 will be in the Middle East. The homo and colonial establishments will total 240,000.-
Among the 1,548,000 in the course of demobilisation are 325,000 Dominions troops.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17101, 5 March 1919, Page 7
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