GERMANY’S FORCES
FRENCH GENERAL’S ESTIMATE NEARLY THREE MILLION. PARIS, December 13. (Received Dec. 14, at 1.15 a.m.) General Debeney, a member of tho Supireme Council of War, etimates that Germany’s available force at about 2,700,000 as follows: Regular army .. .. .. •• 140,000 Time expired men 60,000 Militarised police 157,000 Hitler’s new picked troops .. 100,000 Nazi Storm Troops .. 1,000,000 War soldiers under 40 .. 1,300,000 General Debeney asserts that the Reich has more than double the number of motor cars authorised by the Versailles Treaty, and estimates Germany’s capacity of producing aeroplanes at 2500 a month. He infers from recent importations no nickel, tungsten, cotton, and. other raw materials of munitions that industrial mobilisation has begun.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22136, 14 December 1933, Page 10
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