BRITISH PARLIAMENT
(Australian Press Association & Sun.) IN THE COMMONS. LONDON. March 8. Don Amer.v in reply to a question said there had been no further Wahabi raids on Iraq since I9tli I’ehruary. It was questionable whether the guilty tribesmen still acknowledged the sovereignty of Ibn Sand. LONDON, March 8. Sir K. Worthington Evans said the mechanised squadron at. present- consisted of six-wheeler lorries carrying eight machine guns in peace time and sixteen in war time. Six-wheelers also carry, the first line transport. lie hoped in future to substitute light armoured vehicles for six-wheeler lorries. He added that the Air .Ministry would explain the frak position. He said, compared with other nations, the Anny statistics were small, hut they had so much they needed in the yoais after the great war, that labour would support the vote because it thought the army ought to he efficient in its purpose. The gravest revelation was that only one third of the men offering to recruit were found physically tit.
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Hokitika Guardian, 9 March 1928, Page 3
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