THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 81, 1988.
German Army's Strength Now 51 Divisions
Peace-Time Force Of ! 850,000 Men
THE FULL EXTENT OF THE CHANGES THAT HAVE TAKEN PLACE IN THE ORGANISATION OF THE GERMAN ARMY THIS YEAR IS REVEALED FOR THE FIRST TIME BY THE PUBLICA- TION OF A FULL LIST OF ARMY GROUPS AND ARMY CORPS COMMANDS.
The German Army now consists of 51 divisions, including five tank divisions, four light and three mountain troop divisions and cavalry brigade. At this time last year the official list showed 89 divi- sions and a mountain troop, cavalry and a light brigade,
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The 51 divisions are organised in 15 army corps, which are themselves divided into six army groups.
In addition there are three fur- ther army corps, the 14th at Magde- burg, the 15th at Jena, and the 16th in Berlin, about which no details are given. They consist, it is be- lieved, of additional mechanised and tank units.
Outside this framework there are a number of frontier infantry regi- ments employed as a
permanent garrison for the. fortifications. These are organised in separate frontier commands.
OLD FORTS ABANDONED During this year some old forti- fications in Koenigsberg, Marien- burg, Kuestrin, Glogau, Breslau and
A CALL FOR FIRM LEGS AND NERVES, Built on the Clyde in 1892, the four masted barque "Olivebank” is still weathering the storm on her voyages between England and Australia with cargoes of grain. Sailing before the mast still has its romantic appeal and there is never any lack of crews for these old windjammers. Life aboard is still pretty tough, however, and one needs to be a real sailor to go aloft during a storm and manhandle the huge spread of canvas, No slips here! Taking in the main- sail on the Olivebank, as she glides through the N. Atlantic.
BRITISH FILM
STUDIOS PLAN
Ingolstadt have been abandoned. BIG MERGER
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With corps and army troops the total peace strength of the German Army may now be estimated about 850,000 men. Each of the standing divisions is backed by at least one reserve division, so that on mobilisation no fewer than 1,700,000 men can now be placed in the field.
This figure will be increased as additional classes perform their period of military service and join
the reserve.
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The purge of last February and subsequent retirements have been responsible for many changes in the higher commands. Out of the 18 army corps commanders only six were in the same position last year. Five of the six army group com- manders are also new as well as the Commander-in-Chief, Gen. Brauchitsch and the Chief of the General Staff, Gen.. Halder.
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SIXTH ARMY GROUP . The sixth army group has its headquarters at Hanover. This con- firms the suggestion that an extra army group was likely to be placed on the western frontier.
An important event will take place shortly in the British cinema world if the rumoured merger of the Denham and Pinewood studios into one single concern materializes.
Negotiations to that effect, it is learned, are being conducted be- tween Alexander Korda, of “The Private Life of Henry VIII" fame, and Captain Richard Horton and J. Afthur Rank, the latter two repre- senting the Pinewood Studios.
The merger, while putting an end to harmful competition between the two moving-picture producing companies, would, it is expected, give a new impetus to the film in- dustry of England.
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The Denham studios, built 1935, have been responsible for a number of fine pictures such as "Elephant Boy," "Vivtoria the Great" and "The Drum," while the Pinewood studios produced amongst other house-filling features "Pyg-. malion" and "This Man is News,”
INVISIBLE GLASS INVENTED BY WOMAN
SCIENTIST
New York, Dec. 26. Dr. Katharine Blodgett, scientist of the American Electric Company's Research Laboratories, announced to-day that she had discovered process whereby she could glass totally invisible,
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face of the glass in a very fine lay-
er.
The sheets of glass thus treated then permitted 99 per cent of light rays to pass through as compared to the 92 per cent that can now pass through the present glass manufac- tured to date.
Dr. Blodgett declared that she Her process provides for the im-experienced great difficulty in dis- mersion of the glass in a solution, covering a solution which would whose nature she did not reveal, not come off at the slightest touch. which then spreads over the sur--Havas.
10,000 TULIP BULBS FOR PARLIAMENT
The First Commissioner of Works, "which have contributed to rescue Sir Phillip Sassoon, announces that, mankind from the horrors of war.” as an expression of gratitude for On behalf of the British Govern- the preservation of peace in Europe, ment the First Commissioner has the Dutch Central Bulb Growers' accepted a gift of 10,000 tulips from and Exporters Committee has the committee. These bulbs will be offered gifts of bulbs for planting planted in Victoria Tower-gardens, in the neighbourhood of the Parlia-adjoining the Victoria Tower of ment buildings of those countries the Houses of Parliament.
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