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Finally Mr. Lloyd George dealt with disarmament. The army had

already been reduced to 200,000 men. 25,000 guns had been surrendered, but 2,000 remained in Germany. The Germans had also surrendered 55,000 machine-guns and 1,500,000 small arms. The worst figure referred to rifles, of which there were still 3,000,000 in Germany ; and although the army, strictly so-called, was only 200,000 strong, there were "900,000 armed men" in Germany.

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