NECESSITY FOR MORE MEN
GENERAL BIRDWOOD'S VIEW.
Asked last week how long it would be before the reserves in ' England being trained on a divisional' basis would be exhausted as reinforcements? for the Australian Imperial Force, Senator Peafce, federal Minister for Defence, said: "I do not intend to give facts and figures which might prove Useful to our enemy and perhaps the best reply that I can give is that General Sir William Birdwood views the outlook for reinforcements ■ with such misgiving that he has withdrawn one division from the field, and .is keeping it as a reserve division. ' General Birdwood does not regard tho camps of Australians in training in England as reservoirs -which cannot bex como exhausted. As a matter of fact, we must bo continually sending reinforcements forward, as men enlisted now may not bo put into {he field of battlo for six or eight months to come."
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Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 135, 5 December 1917, Page 7
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