BRITAIN'S WAR EFFORT.

Colonist, Volume LXI, Issue 14958, 4 January 1919, Page 5

BRITAIN'S WAR EFFORT.

OVER TEN MILLION MEN RAISED

PROGRESS1 OF DEMOBILISATION.

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association)

(Received Jan. 3, 11.25 p.m.)

London, Dec. 31.

The Army, Navy, and Air Force at the date of the armistice numbered six and a half millions, though Britain's total war effort was over ten millions. Thus far 270,000 men have been demobilised, 115,000 prisoners repatriated, and 390,000 munition workers released.

Railway and shipping facilities in France and England have made it impossible to increase the rate of demobilisation, but when all the prisoners have been repatriated the speed of demobilisation will increase.