SIZE OK THE ARMY.
During t!io eompulsion debate in the English House of Commons, recently. Sir F. Banbury (U.. City of London) (piestioned Mr. Asqirth regarding h:s statement on tlie previous day that \\e had in all eightv-throe divisions in the tield. That, he stated, Ineant only 1.1)60,000 men. " Mtieh more than that, replied Mt Asijuith. " You will he safe in taking a division as representing 25,000 men.' Sir Frederiek Banbury: "That would mean about two nulFon men. Hot does the Prim.' Minister arrive at his figure of five million men enlisted? - ' Mr. A>(|ii th : "'I said that, taking the Armv as it was when th-e war bro • out. and tho subsequent additions, th * effort of the Empire amounted to fiv million men.''
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Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 195, 28 July 1916, Page 2 (Supplement)
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