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Show POLES SCRAP GUNS IN REFORMING ARMY WARSAW, June 3. The Polish republic re-public has begun the unification of I Its armament which, it has ben , found, will involve the scrapping of the bulk of the material accumulated from various sources during tho past four years. The renewed equipment will be one more stsep in the transformation of the Polish emergency forCe to a me-, me-, thodlcally organized national body, i Purchases are being made prlncU pally in France to replace that part. , of the old material that cannot be . used for the equipment of the new. army which, on a peace basis, was , fixed at 2 5O.O0 men In the last bud-; bud-; get. French officers are helping in the reorganization of tho army, but In much smaller numbers than served ; during the campaign against the Bol-j I Bhevlki. There wa re then 1986 French I officers In the field; there are now I 63. all told, attached to the army as . Instructors In the Polish military school. |