NECESSITY FOR MORE MEN.
GENE UAL BIRD WOOD’S. VIEWS. Asked last week how long it would he before the reserves in England being trained on a divisional basis would be exhausted as reinforcements for the Australian Imperial Force, Senator Pearce, Federal Minister for Defence, said: “I do not intend to give facts and figures which might prove useful to our enemy, and perhaps the best reply that 1 can give is that General Fir William Birdwood views the outlook for reinforcements with such misgiving that he has withdrawn one division from the field, and is keeping it as a reserve division. “General Birdwood does not regard the camps of Australians in training in England as reservoirs which cannot become exhausted. As a matter of fact, we must be continually sending reinforcements forward, as men enlisted now' may not be put info the field of battle for six or eight months to come,”
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1761, 6 December 1917, Page 2
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152NECESSITY FOR MORE MEN. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1761, 6 December 1917, Page 2
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