The Army Estimates
INCREASED COST OF UPKEEP. AVIATION "EATS UP MONEY." Times-Svdney Sun Special Services. Received 12, 5.20 p.m. London, March 12. Colonel Seely, explaining the Army Estimate*, said the cost of living had increased in all directions. This applied to the armies of the world, livery army now had its aviation services. ' The cost of all armies was bound to i increase. Aircraft were expensive, but ' a thing that tho army had to procure. 1 The Minister of War of a great neighboring Power had recently said to 1 him, "Beware of aviation. It eats u;> ' money!" He believed Great Britain 1 had now an efficient air service, and I would not fall behind competition in mastering the air. PETTICOAT GOVERNMENT. THE DEMOCRATIC DOMINIONS. Received 12, 10.0.j p.m. - ] London, March 12. Mr. Hamar Greenwood, M.l'., speaking on the Army Estimates' debate, denounted the "sinister feminine influence ' in British regiments," and described how Australia had wiped out the social status in the army. Two of the ' best oflioers in the Australian training ' school were sons of a policeman and a 1 shoemaker. Such men would have ' had no chance at Sandhurst, 1
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 217, 13 March 1914, Page 5
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192The Army Estimates Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 217, 13 March 1914, Page 5
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