COLONEL REPINGTON'S VIEWS.
(The Times.) LONDON, December 29. Colonel Repingtbn says the "Allies should place, pn the .West Front, at least 60 new divisions -aiid a ; proper 1 complemeiit of guns of all calibres. These : divisions can be drawn partly from the eastern " expeditions as soon ..as Indian, and Afiican forniations • v can replaco them. It is also possible to «opy the Gemians and talce three infantry; battalions from the old divisions, forming Them into new j, divisions'. Soinfe must be new creatjolis f ornied, from the reserves of manhood" m Btitain and the Dominions. We are saiintering through the war whenLwe have four million men of military age m civil life and our age limit is still" four' years below" the German standard. , We have not yet answered Germany's mass levy and our reserve of manhood is larger than Germany's."
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 14185, 30 December 1916, Page 5
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141COLONEL REPINGTON'S VIEWS. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 14185, 30 December 1916, Page 5
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