The daily morning oasis. [volume] (Nogales, Ariz.) 1917-1920, 1920-04-30
Nearly Every Country
Planning Biggest
Armies And Ma
VieS Of History
By HENRY WOOD


world on a bigger and more crushing
basis than before the war.
ia grande guerre," which was to
have been the worlds last war ant
which was to have inaugurated al
era of universal peace and reduced
ornaments has had for its sole Ell
feet to date the increasing of the
military burden of almost every coun
try in the world.
In fact the only exceptions are those
defeated countries whose armament:
were limited by the peace treaties
but even these, and notably Austria
and Germany are doing everything IL
their power to escape the treaty claus
es and increase, their armies to much
greater basis than is now stipulated
Even the United States, presum
ably the most peaceful country in the
world, has failed to escape from the
mania for increased armies which
Coupled with the increased cost OF
living, these increased ornaments ant
their increased cost of maintenance
will throw on the people of ever
country in the world military >burd,
en- infinitely larger and more crushing
than was borne before the war The
only thing that makes it seem sup
portable at all is that if it is more
than what it was before the war II
is at least less than what the military
expenses were during the war.
While all nations of the world have
not yet succeeded in reorganizing then
armies on the basis which the recent
war appears to have rendered neces-
sary, yet in almost every country
the recognizing projects are under
consideration and there is not single
one that does not provide for an in
crease over what the military effec-
tives and costs were before the war.
While Theoretically, the question OF
the military force to be mainta ned
is purely an internal one which every
country has right to settle for itself
yet, as a matter of fact, every coun-
try, as has always been the case in
the past, is obliged to govern the
size of it's military electives and
strength by what it's neighbors are
doing.
Likewise as in the past, Germany
is still the worlds predominating fac
tor in this respect. The peace treaty
originally reduced the German army
to 100000 men. Later this was tenn
porarily increased to 100000 in order
to enable Germany to meet internal
troubles and possible bOlshevik as
saults from without.
In reality, the most accurate infor-
nation from Germany shows that she
still has 100000 men under arms.
These consist of her regular army of
100000 men; of 10000 soldiers tenn
porarily serving with the marine; and
four large organizations attached to
the ministry Of the interior for inter
nal defense totaling over 100000 with
every indication and certainty that
Germany intends to maintain as much
strength as possible every European
country is forced to take this into con-
sideration in her own army reorgan.
ization.
England for example, has definite
ly decided upon her new army organ
ization which is for 485,00 men divid-
ed into fourteen divisions and organ
lied into a territorial army. The
budget for this military organization,
125,000,000 pounds as against 29,
100000 pounds gefore the war. This
means a military burden four times
larger than before the war.
Naturally, the size of England's
army, just as much as the size of
Germany's army, dictates the size for
every other country.
At Washington despite the recon-,
mendation of Secretary Baker for an
army of 100000 men, the present bills
before Congress provide only for 30O,-
600. Nevertheless, this is double
the United States effectives of before
the war.
In Italy the reorganization of the
army provides for an increase from
1Os regiments of infantry to 12O and
from SO regiments of artillery to 80
drawn by horses and Is by tractors
While a shorter period of military
service is provided for the financial
burden is measurably increased.
In France the definite plans for
the reorganization of the army have
not yet been worked out. In the
meantime France has just called to
the colors her entire class of 1920 and
as her period of service has not yet
been changed they come under the old
three year term of service adopted
just before the war. With the ne
cessity of furnishing the bulk of the
troops that are to hold down the oc.
cupied portion of Germany for the
next fifteen or thirty years, as we'll