MR ALLEN'S OFFER
(By Telegraph.—Vress Association.) WELLINGTON, Last Nighr. Tho Hon R. H. Rhodes, acting Defence Minister, questioned 10-day regarding the Hon James Allen'« .statement in London regarding an expeditionary force, said that such a force won Id be purely voluntary. He had" not .spoken to his- colleagues' about the matter, because the tiling was so obvious. What Mr Allen doubtless had in his mind was the number of men furnished by this Dominion for the South African War. Any expeditionary force that might be organised and furnished to the Mother Country, in a similar moment of stress and need, would serve on a purely yiV.iutarv basis.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 7 February 1913, Page 5
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