THE BRITISH ARMY.
THE GOVERNMENTS INTENTIONS REDUCING .THE EXPENDITURE. Received 17th, 12.35 a.m. London, July lli. The Chronicle's special correspondent referring to the Times' military correspondent's thinly-disguised attacks on Mr. Lloyd-George, Chancellor ot the Exchequer, and Mr. Winston Churchill president of the Board of Trade, explains that the Government has apjainted a committee to bring the military expenditure nearer the figure it was before the Boer war. It emphasises that there has been much waste in the j establishment of the changes throughout the army, and remarks that there 5s no more loyal and peaceful part of I the Empire than South Africa, yet it is I garrisoned aa if it were another Ireland. I The paper advocates the withdrawal of I the army there, which would effect a I saving of £350,000 per annum. I
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 177, 17 July 1908, Page 3
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136THE BRITISH ARMY. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 177, 17 July 1908, Page 3
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