WAR IN EUROPE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18162, 9 August 1933, Page 11

WAR IN EUROPE

“NOT FOR MANY YEARS” CMseral Sir Archibald Montgomerybaingberd, Chief of the Imperial Gennsßtaff, replied to critics of the War Iffiiii when he presided at the annual [•Sljina Memorial lecture at Birkbeck critics are fond of telling us, • It reported by the Morning Post as ivfar. “that we ought to organise the Mr for » big war in Europe. But 1 MB venture to say that a big war , la rope is not 1 likely to be fought by » army for lijany years. ‘‘What we are responsible for is the lacing of the British Empire. That ' flfebig enough task in itself. Any idea turning the whole of the army into lMyi mechanised force is not practical JT We have to hold infantry and flSfrv scattered all over the world, in pantries where mechanised forces would t aiasnitahle. “Wo could not'have a big army for KPpn unless we had two separate aiiss—one for the Empire and the |rtv for Europe. It would bo a dangeris policy,” he concluded, “to concentfm only on a big army for a war on in Continent.”