WAR POTENTIAL STRIPPED

Chronicle (Levin), 23 July 1946, Page 5

WAR POTENTIAL STRIPPED

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| ^ 1 Enefliy Countries Weakened DRAfT PEACE TREATIES

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Received Mondav, 9.15 p.m. NEW YORK, July 21. j The Herald Tribune's Paris corjrespondent reports .that, the draft iPeace Treaties for Italy, Bulgaria, iRumania, Hungary a'hd Finland jprovide #that those States will be jstripped of every means of waging !effective warfare and weakened to jthe extent that they can be conitrolled easily by the United jNations. j The correspondent says the following limitations are imposed: — Italy— Army: 185,000 and 65,000 carabinieri, 200 heavy and medium tanks. Navy: The old battleships Doria and Duilio, the cruisers Luigi Di Savoia, Duca Degli Abruzzi, Guiseppi Garibaldi, Rairiiondo, Monte Cuccoli and Luigi Cadorna, 22,500 officers and men. , Air Force: 200 fighter and reconnaissance planes, no bombers, 25,000 men. Rumania — Army: 55,000 not including ack-ack troops. Navy: 15,000 tons, 5000 men. Air Force: 8000 men, 150 planes of which 100 may be combat aircraft, no bombers. Bulgaria — Army: 55,000 not including 1800 ack-ack troops. Navy: 7250 tons, 2500 men. Air Force: 90 planes, 70 of which may be combat, 5200 men, no bombers. Hungary— Army: 65,000 including personnel to operate Danube patrolships. Air Force: 90 planes of which 70 may be combat, no bombers, 5000 men. Finland — Army: 34,400. Navy: 10,000 tons, 4500 men. Air Force: 60 planes, no bombers, 3000 men. The Russians will be granted a 50- years' lease of Portkala-Udd to establish a naval base in the. Gulf of Finland and also ceded outright the province of Petsamo. France receives five small strips of Italian territory along the French alpine frontier, but Italy retains the right to the hydo-elec-tric power sources of those areas.