SUPPLIES AND TRANSPORT.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 232, 1 October 1925, Page 9

SUPPLIES AND TRANSPORT.

*«ASGE FORCE EKXISTED. HOME SECKETAKTS PLAJf. ©7 Cable—Press Association.—Copyright.i _._q p .-., _ LONDON, September 30. The first official riew of the proposed I or S _____._i 0 _ for th e O { 6UT .. plies during times _f national eme'risrency, __ conveyed in a letter by the Home Secretary to a friend, -who desired to know the intention of the Govern- : ment. 1 He declares that Sir W. Jomson Hicks itold Mm frankly it -was the Govera- ' inent's dtiry to preserve order and mainI tain supplies. Tne Government was prei pared to carry out that duty, ha-rian | already adopted his own plans" for that : ptrrpose. The Government had not thought it . necessary to ma ire a public parade of i it? triliingTiess and ability to do its duty. : nor did it desire -do assume what T-ip-hf be re?arded as a provocative attitude by lenrollias several hundred thousand men. There -was no objection to the inauguration of a body which would i doubtless aid the Government by supi plying classified lists of men willing to i pia.ee their services at tbe disposal of j the country.—(A. and NX Cable.'