FRENCH MILITARY ESTIMATES
COMPARISONS WITH OTHER NATIONS. (Times). (Received 8.45 a.in.) LONDON, February 23. A Paris correspondent says a report on military estimates Avas submitted to Deputies and Envisages on the Disarmament Commissions discussions. It presents the French cause in a most favourable light. The Home Army vote is shown as thirty-eight millions, and overseas thirteen million sterling aggregating six hundred thousand more than last year. The expenditure has allegedly decreased by ten per cent, since 1914, while United States increased eighty-six, Japan forty-eight per cent., Britain had decreased one per cent., and Italy fourteen. France compares her 552 thousand men at Home and overseas Avitli Britain’s 510 thousand regulars, 277 thousand militia, and forty-three thousand overseas formations.
Italy has 303 thousand regulars, ii(l thousand police and militia. Germany one hundred thousand regiilafs, 150 thousand security police.
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Hokitika Guardian, 24 February 1931, Page 5
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