DANISH DISARMAMENT
DECISIVE STEP -PROPOSED ARMY CUT TO ONE-SEVENTH NAVY TO BE A COASTGUARD By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copy right. Australian Press Association. Received Oct. 4, 7.30 p.m. Copenhagen, Oct. 3. A decisive step towards disarmament has been taken by the Socialist Government, which has introduced a Bill reducing the army from 12,000 to 1,(500 men and transforming the navy into a coastguard service consisting of 32 patrol ships and 12 seaplanes. The Bill also abolishes compulsory service. The militia service was hitherto used. The respective yearly costs of the army and navy will be only £400,000 and £595,000. The army, of Denmark consisted in 1920-27 of about 12,000 men, the vote amounting to almost £2,500,000. The navy consisted of four coast-defence ironclads and one being completed, two small cruisers, 23 torpedo boats (built or being built) and 14 submarines (built or being built). The vote in 1924-25 was just under £1,000,000.
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Taranaki Daily News, 5 October 1929, Page 9
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