The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-09

training. There would be an avilable force of TOO men, provided that the time time in which they bind themselves to be at disposal is fixed at tweleve years.
 $50 a Year To Each Reserve
 Every person accepted for service in this corps will be called up for period of four and a half months for police training, during which time they will receive, besides board and lodging, about zoo kroner a month. After the four snd a half months training the guard will be disbanded, but will receive, during the twelve years in which they are at disposal, an annual salary of 800 kroner.
 The aggregate annual expenses for such corps will be at about five and half million kroner.
 In place of the navy a coast guard is to be established, for which a num- Der of the ships now used in the navy will be employed, serving solely as a kind of police to patrol and supervise the Danish waters and perform the in spection of fisheries and the survey of our waters.
 Besides the ships used exclusively for war purposes and at the disposal Of the present naval defense, the inspection of fisheries and the survey service are now under the control of the ministry for war.
 The new coast guard would have ten ships. besides twelve hydroplanes. The guard would comprice 300 men, the ex- | penses being six million kroner an- nually, as compared with fifteen mil lion kroner for the present naval de- fense.
 The Danish parliament always begins | it's ordinary session on the first Tues day in October, and immediately the national accounts for the financial year last past are laid before the houses, and also the budget. The disarmament bill will be introduced at once.
 For the passage of an act 1t must be carried by bare majority both Tn the folketihget and in the landstinget.
 Can't Dissolve Upper House
 As the social democrats and the radical left members will vote for the disarmament bill, it will be carried by the folketinget, but as the Left party snd the conservatives will vote against it, 1t will probably be thrown out by the landstinget. And as the landstinget, ac- cording to the constitution, cannot be dissolved for four years, the bill If lost now cannot be carried during the next fonr years. ..
 The government has declared that it is willing, if desired, to submit the dis armament bill, after it's having been passed by both chambers and as sine qua non for its coming into operation to a referendum for which all persons, male and female, should be allowed to vote.
 If the landstinget, with the assistance of the Left party, thwarts the will ot the majority of the electorate, the folketinget will be dissolved, and the left members in the folketinget will be answerable to their electors for the po- sition which the left members of the landstinget have taken up.
 If we succeed in carrying through the disarmament bin, it will entail, be- sides the direct expenditure of eleven and a half million kroner, an expendi- ture of from six to seven million kroner as pensions for the officers who will be dismissed.
 Not later than one year after the coming into force of the disarmament act, the disarmament may be fully car ried through, and the new police ar rangement be ready to be pat into prac' tice,. and the assets in the shape of buildings and land areas now possessed by the army and navy and representing a value6of more than four hundred million kroner, may then be assigned to other state activities, or lie sold.