BRITISH ARMY OF 500,000 RECRUITED.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2259, 19 September 1914, Page 7

BRITISH ARMY OF 500,000 RECRUITED.

MORE OVERSEAS CONTINGENTS. '■".'.■■. . _ ■.-.-.London, September 17. The firet new army of half a million men is near completion.' London's contribution is seventy thousand men. Colombo, September 17. Lord Kitchener hae accepted Ceylon's contingent; Ceylon pays- tho cost of transport. ■ London, September 17. Canada is sending two additional cavalry regiments to the front. (Reo. September 19, 0.6 a.m.) ... London, September 17. Owing to the enthusiasm in Canada the Government has decided to send 25,000 men in the first contingent, instead of 20,000, and also another ten thousand to maintain the contingent at full strength, and five thousand in another month. . GOOD GROUNDS FOR QUIET CONFIDENCE. The Prime Minister yesterday received the following cable message from the: High Commissioner in London:— ■ -■•■-•■ London, September 17, (6.40 p.m.). . Official.—Lord Kitchener, in tho House of Lords, said:. "We have good grounds for quiet confidence, but the struggle is.bound to be long. We have in the field rather more than six divisions of troops, and two cavalry divisions. These are being maintained at full strength by a steady flow of reinforcements." i From Lord Kitchener's statement, the British force in Prance would appear to amount to about 175,000 men. The nominal strength of tie British Expedi- , tionary Force is six divisions of troops and one cavalry divieion, and certain "airniy troops," and "line of communication troops," with a total strength of 165,000 men. A cavalry division consists of 486 officers and 9410 men, and includes two horse artillery brigades or 24 gwns. The cavalry division is made up of four brigades, or three regiments each, two horse artillery brigades, four nginsor troops, a signal squadron, four. signal troops, an aeroplane squadron, a cavalry train, and four field' ambulances. A division of troops consists of 595 officers and 18,075 men, with 76 guns. It is made tip of three brigades each of four battalions, four field artillery brigades .(one howitzers), one heavy battery, one ammunition column, two companies of engineers, one signal company, one squadron (185 men), one aeroplane squadron, one divisional train, three field ambulances. There are in addition to these divisions cortam "army troops," including two mounted brigades, each consisting of either one cavalry regiment and two mounted infantry battalions, or of two cavalry regiments and one mounted infantry battalion, with one horse artillery battery, one signal troop, one train, and one ambulance.