THE ARMY.

Evening Post, Volume LXVVII, Issue 36, 12 February 1909, Page 7

THE ARMY.

STATEMENT BY MR. HAL DANE. AN ARMY OF EMPIRE. By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Cop/right. LONDON, 11th February. The Right Hon. R. B. Haldane, Secretary of State for War, in a speech at the Ritz Hotel, laid emphasis upon the expressed opinion of experts of the General Staff that a continuity of policy in military matters was essential. The Minister declared that the Territorials were a practical force destined to place the defence of the country upon a sound basis. He then added : "We are in negotiation with our over-seas dominions with a view to the creation and constitution of an Army of .Empiue, and not merely of one belonging to the Motherland alone. " Sir. Haldane concluded by announcing that a third thousand had been added to the London Territorials in response to the appeal of the Daily Mail. Early in December last the London Standard stated thnt Lord Kitchener, Commander-in-Chief in India, was to be shortly created a Field-Marshal, aud given the task of co-operating with the co|bnies in consolidating all the land iorces cf the Empire into a homogeneous array, and giving it a plan of mobilisa tion in the event of war. The nervous strain of household - carewsars out even the strongest woman. Take Steams' Wine, the peerless tonic, which builds up the body and makes the weak strong, jpioasant to thft tttafco.— Advk