Half a Million Less than Las Year: Personnel Reduced London, Feb. 25.
It is announced that the Army Estimates for the coming financial year, 1929, total £10.515,)00, being compared with last rear, the coming 150,500 officers and reduction of 3,000 as camp: with 1028, for' constitutional reasons, diag tro employed by the Air Ministry in a These will now be withdrawn, The fort decrease of 00 officers and men is due to the small number of addi troops employed in China; the disbandment of the West Africa Regiment, reduction of the Sierra Leone gar-risen: the mechanization of another artillery field-brigade amd the abolition of Royal Army Service Corps. horse-transport companies, economies resulting from a ays [tematic examination of all estabi: si
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