TERRITORIAL ARMY.
EMPLOYERS' REFUSAL TO ASSIST. UNIVERSAL SYSTEM ADVOCATED. ,„ .' " ~-4*'', ~j:Ji,v. (Received 8.30 a.m.) >.7) Tj LONDON, August 18. The "Spectator" says that it i s most humiliating for the State to have to wheedle, cajole, and beg employers to allow their men to join the territorial array. The "Spectator" again urges the establishment of a system of universal military training. Mr. Haldane informed Captain KincaidSmith last month that the provisional figures of the strength of the Territorial Force on July 1 were : Yeomanry, 20,622 • artillery, 24,326; infantry, 111,*704. The number of recruits who had joined from January 1 to June 30 were (provisionally) : Yeomanry 3,781; artillery, 6,562; infantry, i.5,636. The* transfers from April 1 to June 30 were: Yeomanry, 19.727; artillery, 18,609; infantry, 93,375.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 198, 19 August 1908, Page 5
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