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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 69, 18 September 1914, Page 8

LATE NEWS

OFFICIAL REPORT The Prime Minister to-day received the following cable message from the High Commissioner in London :—: — ' LONDON, 17th Sept. (6.40 p.m.) Official. — Kitchener, m the House of Lords, said : "We have good grounds for quiet confidence, but the struggle is bound to be long. We have in the field rather more than six divisions of troops, and two cavalry divisions. These are being maintained at f.ull strength by a steady flow of reinforcements." _ [The strength represented by six divisions of troops and two cavalry divisions exceeds by one cavalry division the full nominal strength of the British v Expeditionary Force, which consists of six divisions and one cavalry division. The present force represents about 175,000 men A cavalry division consists of 486 officers and 9410 men, and includes two horse artillery brigades or 24 guns. The cavalry division is made up of four brigades, of three regiments each, two horse artillery brigades, four engineer troops, a signal squadron and four signal troops, an aeroplane squadron, a cavalry train ; and four field ambulances. A division of troops consists of 595 officers and 18.075 men, with 76 guns. It is made up of three brigades each of four battalions, four field artillery brigades ' (one howitzers), one heavy battery, one I ammunition column, two companies of engineers, one signal company, one squadron (185 men). One aeroplane squadron, one divisional train, three field ambulances. There are in addition to these divisions certain "army troops" including ,two mounted brigades, each consisting of either one cavalry regiment and two mounted infantry battalions, or of two cavalry regiments and one mounted infantry battalion, with, one horse artillery battery, one signal troop, one train and one ambulance. All the batteries have six guns except "heavy,"' which have only four. A cavalry regiment consists of 25 officers, 537 men, and 562 horses, in three squadrons. A battalion of infantry, the unit of command, is 29 officers and 995 men, in eight companies.]