UNITED STATES DEFENCE.
' VANCOUVER, March 13. | The initial step in "the organisation of! an army of 250,000 trained men _in theUnited States, as a first line of national defence, was taken at Washington to-day." '_ ■• '_ """ The army will consist of three divisions, and will do made up of the National Guard in New York, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Maine, and- tbe full strength of the regular. army in these States. The training of .the men has been directed with the intention of perfecting an organisation that will put an army of a quarter v of a million in the field at short notice. ;.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 69, 22 March 1910, Page 6
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