TnE NEW ARMY SCHEME.
On Thursday Mr. Arnold -Forster, unfolded his scheme for army reform. We must point out here that, owing no doubt to the complexity -of the subject, his exposition wa« by no means free from ambiguity, and that therefore wo must await a more detailed explanation beforo we pronounce- finally on many of tho the points at issue. What. is clear, however, is that ho proposes to e^tabli^h two regular annies — ono with long service (cigut years), and the other with short servico (two years with the colours and six in the Reserve). The loug-swvice army is to garrison India aud the colonies,' aud to provide a striking force- of sixteen thousand men always ready mobilised at Aldershot; while tho short-servico army is to give us tho regular force needed' at horne — a foi'co which, owing to its very lui'gc reserve, will be capablo, on mobilisation, of supplying a considerable army for oversea work.
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Evening Post, Volume LXVIII, Issue 56, 3 September 1904, Page 9
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157TnE NEW ARMY SCHEME. Evening Post, Volume LXVIII, Issue 56, 3 September 1904, Page 9
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