COMPARISON WITH THE PAST

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2486, 12 June 1915, Page 12

COMPARISON WITH THE PAST

..aP 10 correspondent of the ±1. n s v J" comparing the strength 0 f I 6 ~? L . Army at present with its strength in previous wars, says: "In the present war we are working nn to the 3,000,000 men standard, and are j■* n ar on h ® wa y towards the third million. Even.if we are the least ambitious of people, we must suppose tw&fc w© sbflJl nave a million men in the decisive thea.tr© before''the campaign is much further advanced, and this is 110 times our figure at Aginoourt, 33 tunes that of the Crimea, 2o times the Peninsula. 14 times the figure of the second Afghan war, and 4 times greater than the tally, in South Africa in 1910."

At 1.60 p.m. <m Monday Messi*. JL L. Wilson and Co. will sell, at their rooms, 151-153 Lambton Quay, 330 lota of furniture and household linen, two aviaries and canaries; on the same day, at 2 p.m they will offer a 7 h.p. 4-oylinder Wilkiiison Swordfos touring auto-cycle, cost £135 on account of a naval officer now at the Dardanelles. On Tuesday, at 2 p.m. sharp, the same firm will 6ell fire pianos—Brondwood, John Brinsmeod, lioche and Sohno, Woin Bohm, Imperial! Each instrument is said to be egual to new, of the latost model, and tone perfection. In another column Mr. W. Craighead, Indies' tailor, 33 Willis Street, draws attention to the fact that all the latest modols in Indies' tailoring are available.