BLACK ARMY AT THE FRONT
STATEMENT IN BRITISH PARLIAMENT. London, July 31. In the House of Commons, rc-plying to a suggestion that the military authorities should uso native troop? instead of calling up Englishmen over forty-oue years of age, Mr. Steel-Maitland (UnderSecretary for the Colonial Office) said that there were ten thousand South African natives-in France, and (mother forty thousand had been authorised. Tweuty battalions were being raised in East Africa, and the majority were already serving. Nearly two hundred thousand natives had been enlisted during tho year. Every effort was being made to add to all resources and increase the efficiency of the fighting machine—Aus.N.Z. "Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3152, 2 August 1917, Page 7
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