ARKY REDUCTIONS.
KING’S SIGNIFICANT FAREWELL TO BCOTS GREYS.
TRESS ASSOCIATION - COTYKIuHT London, July 80. Kirg Edward, inspeoting and farewelling the third battalion of Soots Guard', .wbioh are dispensed with under the new eobems, regretted that they woold shortly be disbanded. He never saw a finer body of men. He promised to preserve their colors at Buckingham Palaoe, and hoped be or bis successors would Bee a third battalion carry arms again. When addressing the Soots Guards, King Edward alluded to “ My Government, who consider it neoessary to reduce the expenses of the Army.” This has oaused must comment, as it is inferred His Majesty intended to disclaim the Ministerial action.
Mr Ksir Hardie, speaking at Sheffield, said tho Labor party would try to secure the saving of two and a-balf millions from the Navy estimates as a nest egg for old age pensions.
Berlin, July 30,
Count Reventlow, a prominent exprt, declares that the British redactions will not effect Germany’s resolve to increase her flset as rapidly as possible. Gentian newspapers ridicnle Britain's hypocrisy and smog talk of disarming when building three Dreadnoughts,
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1823, 1 August 1906, Page 3
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