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Waipawa Mail, Volume XXXVI, Issue 7752, 22 July 1916, Page 2 (Supplement)

SIZE OF THE AH MY. During the compulsion debate in the English House of Commons, recently, Sir V. Banbury (IJ., C ity of London) questioned Mr. As«ju'll l regarding h:s statement on tile previous day that wo had in all eighty-three divisions in the field. That, he stated, /meant only 1,060,000 men. “ Much more than that,’’ replied Mr. Asquith. “You will he safe in taking a division ns representing 25,000 men.” Sir Frederick Banbury: “That would mean about two nnll : on men. How dors the Prime Minister arrive at his figure of five million men enlisted?” Mr. Asquith : “I said that, taking the Army as it was when the war bro- • out, and the subsequent additions, th* effort of the Empire amounted to five million men.” THE GRIEVANCE. Burglar: “The only thing I’m kick ing about is bein’ identified by a man that kep’ his head under the bedclothes the whole time. That’s wrong.”