ORGANISING IRISH FORCES.
OFFICERS FOR SECOND ARMY.
ALLOWANCES TO SOLDIERS.
(Received August 11, 11.40 p.m.) London, August 10. Speaking in the House of Commons, Mr. Asquith said Earl Kitchener was anxious to give every help in the organisation and equipment of the Irish volunteers. The Government had shown its confidence in the patriotism of tho Irish by countermanding the order for the despatch to Ireland of the English territorials who, under the mobilisation scheme, would have gone there. ,
Mr. Asquith added that Earl Kitchener's chief difficulty was to find officers and non-commissioned officers for the second army of 100,000 men.
Mr. Asquith also announced that separation allowances would be paid to soldiers who married off the strength, and also pensions to dependents of men who were killed. He said the refusal of tho War Office to recognise such wives caused many hardships during the Boer War.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15685, 12 August 1914, Page 8
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