FRANCE'S PEACE ARMY
ESTABLISHMENTS ANNOUNCED. !
Paris, September 20. fn tho Senate'M. Doumer announced that the future' reorganised army, of France would total 350,000 on ' a peace footing, and would comprise two home army corps and one colonial, army corps in North Africa. Tho war footing would be 1,300,000. Six infantry divisions and one cavalry division would be earmarked for the occupation of the i Rhine area. Universal compulsory service would bo reduced from three years to-one year. This would produco 200,000 recruits, while enlistments and re-enlistmenta would give 150,000.—Renter, '■ ' ■ rl'he peace establishment of the French' army prior to the war was about 650,000, and the war footing, as then provided for, 1,300,000.]
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 307, 23 September 1919, Page 5
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112FRANCE'S PEACE ARMY Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 307, 23 September 1919, Page 5
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