IN BRITAIN
IRISH VOLUNTEERS LORD KITCPIENER ANXIOUS TO GIVE EVERY HELP. LONDON, HtlTAug. (Morning.) Mr. Asquith, in the House of Cornmom, stud that Lord Kitchener was
anxious to give every help for the organisation and equipment of Irish volunleei3. The Government has shown its confidence in the patriotism of the Irish by countermanding the despatch of English Territorials to Ireland, who. under the mobilisation scheme would have gone thert. Mr. Asquith added that Lord Kitchener's chief difficulty is to find officers and non-commissioned officers for the second army of one hundred thousand. Mr. Asquith also announced that separation allowances would be paid to soldiers who had married off the strength, also pensions to the widows if they were killed during the war. Th* official refusal to recognise such wives had caused many hardships during the Boer war.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 37, 12 August 1914, Page 7
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137IN BRITAIN Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 37, 12 August 1914, Page 7
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