ARMIES
Reading edition
In September, 1928, the number of men in active service and enrolled in organized reserves was as follows:
Country Active Army Organized Reserves
Albania 13,200
Austria 43,000
Belgium 71,500 500,000
Bulgaria 33,000
Czecho-Slovakia 150,000 1,489,000
Denmark 9,200 150,000
Estonia 17,000 27,000
Finland 25,500 235,000
France 667,000 5,010,000
Germany 100,500
Great Britain 212,000 318,600
Greece 79,700 415,000
Hungary 71,200
Irish Free State 13,000 3,500
Italy 347,000 2,995,200
Jugoslavia 142,000 1,200,000
Latvia 19,000 200,000
Lithuania 21,200 170,000
Netherlands 32,100 341,500
Norway 30,000 315,000
Poland 242,400 500,000
Portugal 35,000 372,900
Roumania 266,500 750,000
Russia 658,000 5,425,000
Spain 260,700 1,853,500
Sweden 10,200 720,300
Switzerland 500 309,600
Military service is compulsory in all these countries except Austria, Bulgaria, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, the Irish Free State, and Sweden. The United States has a standing army of 134,000 and an organized reserve force of 291,000 (September, 1928).
The most recent figures for Russia show an annual item of $346,000,000 for “defense.” France spent 6,210,752,000 francs on her army in 1928.