SPEECH BY EARL GREY
yQUJWEERJNG J N
BRITAIN
RAISING HALF MILLION
RESERVE
(Received 9.6 a.m.)
LONDON, December 12
In the course of a speech Earl Grey likened the burgher principle in the South African Republic to the volunteer, system:of England. He expressed' the opinion that the adoption of the volunteer system would be a guarantee- against' the invasion of the United Kingdom. Earl Wemyss, Colonel of the London Scottish volunteers, who takes a prominent, interes? in the volunteer movement, is enrolling a volunteer reserve of half-a-million men.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 295, 13 December 1899, Page 5
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