Y.400,000,000 to be Spread over the Next Ten Years Tokio, Aug. 8.
The Minister of War has issued a statement to the effect that army retrenchment during the next 10 years will amount to Y.400,000,000. Though the retrenchment in the next fiscal year will probably not exceed Y.26,000,000, the succeeding years will give an average of Y.40,000,000. The plan involves a reduction of 1,800 officers, 56,000 men and 13,000 horses, being, in effect, a reduction by five or six divisions. The conscriptional period will be reduced by three months, which, the statement declares, is the utmost possible—Reuter.
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