NO HALF-BAKED SOLDIERS
BRITAIN'S MILTrARY FORCES RIGID TRAINING INSISTED ON LORD KITCHENER'S PUN (Eec. August 19, 10.55 p.m.)' ' London, AugUßt 19. .' Lord Kitchener's plan for replenishing the Army <has won universal approval and is-founded on the possibility of having to face "a long and, stubborn war. scheme divides Britain's available man ■ power into whole and half-timers. ' ~ Thousands of Territorials are volunteering for foreign service and will become like tho overseas contingents soldiers for the whole, time of the war, serving abroad- immediately they reach a rigid standard of efficiency. Lord Kitchener's Boor war experience'has influenced him in his decision to have no half-baked' sojdiers to face the Germans and Austrians. The second army for this war will only be discharged immediately the war is 'over. 'Britain has quietly resolved lo go to the bitter end to ensure, that, the menace to'ths world 1 * paaraie destroyed beyoud th« risk of reappewaace,
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2233, 20 August 1914, Page 5
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150NO HALF-BAKED SOLDIERS Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2233, 20 August 1914, Page 5
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