FRENCH FORCES.
BIG DECREASES REPORTED. (BY CABLE—PSBBS ASSOCIATIOK—COPYRIGHT.) (ACSTBALIAJf AND N.Z. CABLI ASSOCIATION.) (Received November 10th, 11.15 p.m.) PARIS, November 10. The reorganisation proceeding in the French Army has resulted in a decrease of 13 per cent, on the 1926 figures. Successive reductions amount to 45 per cent, compared with the prewar strength. The period of military service has _ been reduced since the war successively from three years to' two, then one and a half, and now one year.
. Meanwhile the navy's pre-war tonnage is halved. There have been con» siderable reductions in the total expenditure on the armed forces since 1922, when the cost was eight per cent, below the pre-war level. It is pointed out that all the decreases were made in spite of the new commitments in Morocco and other colonies and mandated territories.
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19155, 11 November 1927, Page 7
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137FRENCH FORCES. Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19155, 11 November 1927, Page 7
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