WARNING NOTE.

Manawatu Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 2076, 17 March 1922, Page 5

WARNING NOTE.

AGAINST ARMY REDUCTION* “LARGE ENOUGH TO LOSE J WAR.” INCREASED RESPONSIBILITY. [By Electric Cable-Copyright] [Aust. and N.Z, Cable Association,] (Received Thursday, 8 p.m.) LONDON, March 15. e A feature of the Committee dcbat< s on the Army Estimates was tin :t maiden speech of Field-Marshal Wil son. The House was crowded. The 1, speaker urged that if the Govern e meat’s military economies wen :l through, we would have an army no a large enough to prevent or win a war g but large enough to go to war am e lose it. Though Britain’s military re - sponsibilites had vastly increased sinci - 1918, the consequence of the reduc a. tions was that instead of six divisions - our Expeditionary Force would con e sist of one division of infantry and out y division of cavalry, which would bi e ready in fifteen days, another infantry ? division ready between 15. and 4; t days ,and the third and fourth divi--1; sions ready within four months. r [The Army Estimates provide foi - £62,800,000 for 215,000 men of ul e ranks, where the British establish- - ment is 152,800.] i -—— . -———J