INVASION PROBLEM
DEBATE IN THE LORDS. "BLUE FUNK SCHOOL." IVss Awi-Hv Teiearaph—Copyright Received 9.35 p.m. London, April 22. In the House of Lords, discussing the Armv Annual Bill, Lord Midleton said tin* dauger of invasion had increased since Lord Haldane's scheme of 1907. He asked how the Government was going to get the requisite numbers. Lord Haldane replied that the Committee of Imperial Defence was investigating the problem. The existing scheme was based on the fact that Britain was an island power responsible for a great Empire. Voluntary service would enable them to maintain the army and navy required. The couutry should not be unduly nervous.
It was not necessary to belong either to the "blue water school," which did not believe in the possibility of invasion or to the "Dlue funk school" living in daily fear of invasion.
Lord Curzon appealed for the appointment of a conference composed of leaders of both parties to endeavour to solve the armv question.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LXV, Issue 1902, 23 April 1913, Page 5
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