THE ARMY.

Bush Advocate, Volume XVIII, Issue 520, 17 September 1906, Page 5

THE ARMY.

♦ (Per Press Association.) By Electric Telegraph. -Copyright London, September 16. Mr R. B Haldane, Secretary for War, speaking at Newcastle, said it was necessary to popularise the conception of a nation in arms, though not the spirit of mi'itarism. There ought to be one national army of regulars, militia, yeomanry aud volunteers. These ought to be all parts of one whole. He always liked to see rifle clubs affiliated to tbe forces. They must look to the expansion of the volunteers in the same degree that the Continent relied on conscription With sufficient enthusiasm they might get into the field and maintain au army of 900,000.