At present the military appropriations amount to several hundred million dollars each year, Gen. Ho said. These are only sufficient to maintain the lowest standard of living for the troops, not to speak of the replenishment of military equipment.
In order that the entire military force may be nationalized, modernize ed and enabled to shoulder the responsibilities of national defence and Cope with modern warfare, military readjustment gri a wide scale is imperative and gil unnecessary expense saved for the provision of new military equipment.
With this in view, therefore, the Ministry of War has, acting on the general principles of troops readjust-
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