BRITAIN’S ARMY
SIR HENRY WILSON OPPOSES
REDUCTION.
Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.
LONDON, March. 15.
A feature of tho House of Commons debate on the Army Estimates was tho maiden speech of Field-Marshal Sir Henry Wilson. Tho House was crowded.- Sir Henry Wilson urged that if the Government military economies wont through we would have an. Army not largo enough to prevent or to win a war, but large enough to go to war and lose it, though Britain’s military responsibilities had vastly increased since 1913. A consequence of the reduction was that instead of six divisions our expeditionary force would bo one division of infantry and one division of cavalry to be ready in fifteen days, another infantry division to bo ready in from (iftoon to forty-five dfiys, and the third and fourth divisions to bo ready within four months.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
[Field-Marshal Sir Henry Wilson, who was appointed Chief of the Imperial General Staff in February, 1918, in succoFsion to Sir William Robertson, was recently elected to the House of Commons aa rcpmtttta/tivo for North Down.]
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Evening Star, Issue 17921, 17 March 1922, Page 4
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