"FALLACIES AND FACTS."

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 266, 31 March 1911, Page 5

"FALLACIES AND FACTS."

BRITAIN'S MILITARY UN PREPAREDNESS. LORD ROBERTS' PROPOSALS. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Received 30, 11.40 p.m. London, March 30. Murrays, the publishing firm, are publishing, under the title of "Fallacies and Facts," a book in reply to General Tun Hamilton's book on defence and Lord ITaldane's introduction thereto. Lord Roberts contributes part one, which is entitled ''The Nation's Peril." He contends that a fortnight's training yearly, until a territorial reaches the age of 50, is the requisite stability of discipline required in modern war. He urges n reasonable scheme of national service on the Continental model, consisting nf long and short service armies as furnishing the first line of the highest efficiency, and permanently mobilised. Also a second force, with a mobilisation strength equal to the estimated requirement of 300,000, to be immediately available for oversea purposes or any great, war. A national militia behind these would provide a million trained men for home defence, and voluntary expansion to meet the requirements of an overseas struggle.