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I'BOrasED TERMS OF SEKVICK CAUTIOUS CRITICISM. i Lo.nimv, July 13. | Mr ilaldune, continuing ins statement, announced tint the terms of enlistment would be: Inline and cavalrv regiments, seven years with the colors and live years in (lie reserve; !' r ii,vl artillery, six years with the eilour-. and six in the reserve. Under the new scheme fifty-t «o battalions of the line would be stationed m India; twentyfive in the colonies, and seventy-two at Home.
Mr Hald'ioc predicts a great diminution in cost combined with greatlv increased strength. Mr Arnold-!orstec (late Secretary of State for War) and Mr Balfour insisted that the scheme disclosed no power of expansion in the proposed army. Sir Charles Cilke questioned whether there would i>c great lasting economics obtainable under it. Mr Haldane replied that expansion would be secured by the people organising themselves for military service | under the guidance given them on the spot. The debate was adjourned. Ths press comments are cautious,, with a tendency to disappointment.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8158, 16 July 1906, Page 3
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180THE ARMY SCHE Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8158, 16 July 1906, Page 3
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