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ARMY OF GERMANY FRENCH WIRTER’S CLAIM Times Cable. Reed. 9.5 a.m PARIS, Friday. A correspondent of “Le Journal declares that the German official army (supposedly of 100,000 men) is stronger than has been supposed. The number of privates is 38,000 and corporals 38,000, sergeants 20,297 and’ staff officers 619, including 39 generals, 106 brevet-colonels. There are, he says, 596 phantom companies, apart from the regular companies of the Reichswehr. The annual cost of the army is £35,000,000, whereas the old Imperial Army of 900,000 men cost £30,000,000.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 520, 24 November 1928, Page 9
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89DISCORDANT NOTE Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 520, 24 November 1928, Page 9
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