COST OF ARMIES.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2006, 13 March 1914, Page 7

COST OF ARMIES.

ALL-ROUND IKCKEASJS. .. ' B7 Tnl!!gpn l pl]-..1ir < ..., v AisftnlO'ifrn-CftßytißJiS -."53m.es" α-iid Sydney "-Run" Serines. (Kee/Mareh 11, §M p.m.) ~, ' _ • toMm* Mareli 52. LoJonel 56e1y,. wluoji espLi-iniag the Army Estimrte-Sj said that tho cost of living; had iiicfGascd in' all directions. This also applied to the a.rreries of the lvttrid. Ew?ry air-my ho* had its aria- , ti-on service, and it was .calculated that ertdi airmail cost double a cavalryniatt arid an infaiitevm-an. H-β believed that ilio cost of all armies' was bonn-l to innraasH. Aircraft was the nwsfusfnjßsive Ming an army lad to procuve'.'. _ Imb War Minister of a great m'wh Odd ring Power recently said to him: •'tott-aie of aviation—i{, eats up money," Colonel Seely added that he behßt'od that Britwa toad now an efficient- nis-sen-ke, ami wonid not Fall beliiiid nt Wh> competitkiu for tho mastering of the air. FBMNINE IxNfFLtJKNCB. (Rcc. Jiaroli 12, 10.55 p.m.) Unflorc, llaicl) 12, lUr. Uamav Greeinvood (Liberal itienilier for Snnderlaiul), speaking <>u the Amy Estimates, denounead vvli.at he described «s "a .sinistM-IVvnini.no iiifluelicfl ■an the British regiinents. He pomted mtt hew Australia , had wiped ont tiw fiocml stains idea in her arnsy. 'i'hfi two_ best o-flicci-s in tl«j AtistniJiavi Ifiuiimg Scliool wore the smis of a po-ljcetnan ami of a shoemaker. Sticl'i iiICT, lie said, would have liatl ho clwiH-c at Sajidhurst Military Cellefie. !