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«. The Manchester JRifles will parade this evening, full dress. The suggestion that colonial regiments should be raised for service in India is still being discussed, writes a London correspondent. It is now argued that three battalions should be raised in Australia and one in New Zealand. It is thought that Australia and New Zealand benefit by — (l) employment, education, and discipline being furnished to young unemployed men at a time of life when a military training might have an invaluable effect on them ; (2) the formation of a reserve of trained and disciplined soldiers, who would give the muchneeded backbone to the local forces of the colonies; (3) the closer connection with India, while all would gain — mother country, India, and colonies— by the acknowledgement and performance of the duty of mutual aid and support.
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Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 23, 11 August 1892, Page 2
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