THE DEFENCE CUT

Evening Star, Issue 17955, 28 April 1922, Page 1

THE DEFENCE CUT

i-ro\ iFort kl'TKTfxcy. [l’eu TJkitkd Pre.'-'s Assam at; ox.] C'jlßhS'fni' 11(111, An ■! 9.1. An interoslinf; a!.:smn'*nt as ir, his intentions iu iceard to maintainin',' i! e cme.iency of tin) Jiefuuw stuff so jar as wCi'iit retrenchments will pi-mat Inm. 3 nmdu liy ilie Min Liter of DelVum; .I IF in. fjir Heaton Rhode.-) when inyii;-' ‘ foundation stone of i.h'- iJrucu Itv.'k 'rcnnmial Hull (o-iliiy. dhe vt 1 ! l out“!, hi the siaff had pivvion, iy l ien referred. 1 o by Mr ft. Mncartney, who eypvi -oe i l 1 ".- o|ihiiou that every youne; New ZcalnMcr should bo ini irin'iicJ in arms as (a hs ready whenever the < all came. Fir Heaton Rhodes raid Utril Mr Mac-, arincyideal was a Very proper one. The task of mlwintt the forcer, had hern a necernirv one. Gibe* .’dinioslers had had to dispense wilh ii;o wviec:- of |iart of their staffs, hut his own tar’: had h-m all the jinrdrr for him, as ho had to dim jjenro with men who had served loyally nml well, not only in New /wainml. but ako oveineaf. However, the pi'H's-itv for ooonoiny had made l.ho step inii'eovive. There iiml kii a, demand fwtn Parliament and from the ooiintvy fm 1 retrenchment. : iu fact, :: certain section of t !d> (mnirnnniiy waided no Defence ('dive at all; bul, he was determined that' that position chi add not a l ire. The de;mrt!iU?,li/s object now was to lice”, an efne'Ciit, welllrained stall' of ofliee.w and n.r.o r. ; Fm.-ii a trained staff (hey wore d-T.-emin- ;I to keep, an it. load boon, shown that in war a. force could ho trained in a conipa.nitivclv rli'V't time, but it was net to an far as ollicors and no;.on weio concerned, end the smaller the _ skiff that was re-tairiP-cl tliiv Id oil or train ml iky nmrt be. That principle would ‘pice mi ellioicnt skeleton foicc about which a, for<’« could comparatively ipnclcly ho built, ns occasion demanded.