BRITAIN'S PEACE ARMY
ESTIMATES FOR 3,500,000 MEN UNCERTAIN FUTURE By Telegraph-Press (Kec. March 4, 7.15. p.m.),...' „ London. March 3. In the House'of Commons Mr. Winston Churchill, in moving.the- Anuy Estimates—which provide foT three and a. half million men—pointed out that the h'Kiires were provisional owing to-the uncertainties of the future.' : Much would depend on the amount of indemnity Germany would have to pay. We possessed all the means i'cr coercing Germany, which was starving , and dangerously near collapse. We could allow Germany to import food and law materials the moment she signed peace.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. The Army Estimates for 1919-20 amount to i'287.000',000. . In WMte. Paper! estimates, the maximum strength of the Army at the end of March, exclusive of those serving in India, is two and a half millions, which number will be rapidly reduced-to 952,000, of which number 1<13.600 will; comprise the armies of occupation on the Rhine (including France and Belgium), and 308,400 in tho middle Bast. The home and colonial establishments total 240,000. Among the 1,548,000 men in course of demobilisation are 325,000 oversea dominion troops, —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 137, 5 March 1919, Page 5
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183BRITAIN'S PEACE ARMY Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 137, 5 March 1919, Page 5
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