RECRUITING RECORD IN TERRITORIAL ARMY

Southland Times, Issue 23378, 9 December 1937, Page 5

RECRUITING RECORD IN TERRITORIAL ARMY

(British Official Wireless)

(Received December 8, 6.30 p.m.) RUGBY, December 7.

The Secretary for War (Mr Leslie Hore-Belisha) stated in the House of Commons that during the year ended October 31, 43,920 recruits were finally approved for the Territorial Army—an increase of 10,526 on the number finally approved during the preceding year. The figure is a record one for a normal year. ADMINISTRATIVE CHANGES PERSONNEL OF COMMITTEE OF INQUIRY (British Official Wireless) (Received December 8, 6.30 p.m.) RUGBY, December 7. The personnel of a committee of inquiry into the general administration of the Territorial Army was announced in the House of Commons. The Undersecretary for War (Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal) is chairman and the other members are: Major-General Sir John Brown, Deputy Director-General of the Territorial Army; Colonel Viscount Cobham, Vice-Chairman of the Council of Territorial Army Associations; Colonel Sir Robert Johnson, Deputy-Master Controller of the Royal Mint; and Mr J. R. Wade, of the War Office.

The inquiry will cover the organization and finance of the county associations and the simplification of relations between the War Office and the associations on the one hand and the associations and the units on the other.