VOLUNTARY ARMY.
LONDON'S SHARE' IN TERRITORIAL
SCHEME.
TRAINING OF.BOYS.
BY TELEGRAPH— MESS ASSOCIATION—COPYttIOHT,
London, November 25.
Tho Secretary for War, Mr. Haldano, speaking at the Guildhall, stated that under the new territorial army scheme London would furnish in tho event of war two divisions, comprising twenty-four battalions, with ycomaiirj and artillery.
Major-Goneral R. S. Badijn-Powell, during a lecture ■at Scarborough, expounded a scheme Epr the voluntary training of a million and three-quarters of boys in the United Kingdom, who are now drifting, of whom are going to tho bad.
Major-General Bnden-Powoll has had in hand for some tune—nud has to some extent applied —a scheme for training boys as scouts. The plan is to provide a prngramm? of outdoor life and woodcraft that will appeal, to the boy nature; at the same time, to maintain discipline.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 54, 27 November 1907, Page 7
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136VOLUNTARY ARMY. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 54, 27 November 1907, Page 7
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