300,000 soldiers of the Royal Armed Forces switched sides to join the rebels!?

Chapter 130, page 7: news about a massive shift in allegiance. - 300,000 soldiers of the Royal Armed Forces switched sides to join the rebels!? - Originally, the 600,000‑strong Royal Armed Forces could contain the rebels who were only 400,000 strong... - But now the situation is completely opposite! - With that, the situation in Alabasta has entered its most critical phase... - And that was the paper from 3 days ago. - Sorry for not showing it to you until now... - I didn't want to worry you any further since we were already sailing as fast as we could. - Location: Chapter 130, page 7, panels 1‑4. - Speaker data: none. - Confidence: 39%. - Low OCR confidence; verify exact wording before quoting this passage.