BRITISH ARMY REFORM.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXIII, Issue 52, 18 March 1901, Page 3

BRITISH ARMY REFORM.

I.OKD WOLSKLKY'H 3Di3KESOE. PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. Received 17, 4.51 p.m. Lohdon, March 16. In the Bouse of Lords the debate oi he question of array reform initiate' ■j tli« Duke of Bedford was continuec lord WoKfl-y, traversing th | riticiso-'s n:eved for the production c ail p.p.-ii' connected v.ith tbo advice h h d given the Secretary of State fc War wit'> a view t , proving that hi advice had '>efin ovv-rul'd. He nev; conspired tenabl?, an advised that in l he events of war tl Biggarsberg and Van Reenan passi should be ocoupied, aod Jjadysmit

; used as supply d-pot. He rccomj mended in June, 1899, the mebilisatiec jof an army corps in the west of En;-;-j hnd. He also recommended, early ic j September, the despatch of army corps !to South Africa with other force?. He admitted he hsd under-estimated tli€ Beers' preparations for war and the fighting poner of individual Boers. Lord Laiidnowne, replying, said tiic proposals made in the summer of 1899 to mobilise army corps, and later to oomipy Dalagca and land twelve thousand muies iu readiness fer transport purposes were disregarded because the Government's policy was peace, not provocation. Lord Roseberry supported Lord Wolseley's motion for production of the wi ittan advice. Lord Salisbury suggested the motion should bo withheld until it was indicated which, among the confidential memoraoda, Lord Wolseley required to 5 be produced. Lord Woleeley pressed for a division ; on the motion, which was negatived by 62 to 38.