THE NEW ARMY.
REGULARS TO BE REDUCED BY
20.000
-Received July 13, 9.26 p.m. LONDON", July 13
Mr Haitians explained the Cabinet's Army scheme. Britain, he said, 'meant to lead in the movement for the reduction of the crushing burden cf armaments. With the whole-hearted concurrence of the- Army Council, it was proposed to reduce the. Regulars by 20,000. The country would then be able tc< keep prepared for peace and to .mobilise in war time an expeditionary force (if 154,UUU, comprising .six divisions c'f infantry with four c.iv.ilry brigades, ten battei ies of horse artillery iind 63 batteries of field artillery, equalling three army corps composed, roughly, of 50.000 Regulars, 70,000 reservists, and 30,000 trained on the Militia basis.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12936, 14 July 1906, Page 5
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