IMPERIAL DEFENCE.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 11973, 17 September 1906, Page 5

IMPERIAL DEFENCE.

Speech by Mr Haldane.

Pr«sa Association.— Telegraph.— Copyright.

Received September 16, 5.15 p.m.

LONDON, September 15. The Hon. Mr. Haldane, speaking at Newcastle, said it was necessary to popularise the conception of a nation in arms, though not in a spirit of militarism. There ought to be one national army of regular*, militia, yeomanry, and volunteers, all parts, of one whole. He would oven like to see rifle fclubs affiliated to the forces. , We must look, to the expansion of the volunteers, as the Continent relied on conscription. With sufficient enthusiasm we might gst into the field and maintain an army of 900,000 men.