BRITAIN'S DEFENCE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 8106, 8 October 1904, Page 2

BRITAIN'S DEFENCE.

ARNOLDFOKSTER WARNS THE

[PUSS ASSOCIATION.] (Received October 8, 1.9 am.) ti »• „ „ LONI) ON, October 7. The Right Hon. H. O. ArnoW-Forstcr, Secretary of State for War, spunkine at the Cutlers Company's feast, warned the nation that it woWbe unable to p7c P aro for war without previous sacrifices. "You cannot trifle with war," he said. "Every farthing spent on training troops unfit to ,T?, lul l, de Sr li aca c forei 8 n c " e '"y » wasted. The War Secretary added that the "'"LTsi [ ytO aCC ° Pt '" onfo^nJ

(Received October 8, 9.16 a.m.) M a 1 1 v L °NDON, October 7. * Mr Arnold {'orstcr's year's expusitni^ of the War Office has filled him with gave concern. H o says ho sympathised with conscription, though he doubffi whe ately with rts burden. An army wa» not wanted for sport or social oppbrtuniwKtSS. 1011 ' bUt tO M ° t0 WiM