Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 84, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1920 — HOW BIG IS GERMAN ARMY? [ARTICLE]

HOW BIG IS GERMAN ARMY?

l« Really 800,000 Instead of 200,000, as Reported, Saya Socialist. With the American Forces in Germany.—German newspapers are engaged in a hot argument as to the real strength of the German army. The independent socialists have taken an attitude of disbelief of all statements Issued by the present German government. f The Berlin Freiheit, the leading independent organ, contends that it is only pretense to say that the German national army is composed nt 200,000 men and that it really numbers 300,000, which. It says, easily could be Increased to 2,000,000.