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From: dps@hplb.hpl.hp.com (Duncan Smith)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Gurka rundown
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Date: 20 Jun 91 02:02:17 GMT
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From: Duncan Smith <dps@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
/ otter:sci.military / wcsswag@ccs.carleton.ca (Alex Klaus) /  6:07 am  Jun 17, 1991 /

wcsswag@ccs.carleton.ca (Alex Klaus) writes:

>
>While I was at home last weekend, I browsed through a copy "Der
>Spiegel". In it they had an intersting little sidebar.
>
>They mentioned that in line with the British Army's reducion from
>160,000 to 116,000 troops, the Gurkha battalions are being rundown.
>All of them except for the ones designated for Hong Kong defence will
>be disbanded. This is a week old issues.  Can anybody else confirm
>this?

There was an article to this effect in the UK newspaper `The Independent'
last week. However, a couple of days later they published a letter from someone
who should know (A very senior army official) who denied that any such plan
existed. `Der Spiegel' probably picked up the story from the British press.

Duncan