THE EMPIRE'S DEFENCE.
DEBATE ON THE ESTIMATES
(Press Assn.—By Telegraph.— Copyright.) LONDON, March 6. Mr Wyndham, formerly Under-Secre-tkry for War, during the army estimates debate, expressed dissatisfaction with Lord Haldane's scheme ..to secure national safety. Tlie expeditionary force) he said, was below the strength. He urged the increase of the home establishments of the line regiments. General Sir R. Pole-Oarew declared that the whole of the military > needed reorganisation. The existing scheme courted disaster. Two-thirds of the money devoted to territorials should be 'spent on regulars., '
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12705, 7 March 1912, Page 5
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