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BRITISH ARMY

I Bs IT TOO WEAK? A SOLDIER'S CRITICISM. WOULD LOSE IN WAR. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received March 16, 5.5 p.m. London, March 15. A feature of the House of Commons debate on the army estimates was the maiden speech of Field-Marshal Sir Henry Wilson, formerly chief of the general staff of the British Army. The House was crowded. Sir Henry Wilson urged that if the Government military economies went through we would have an army not large enough to prevent or win a war, but large enough to go to war and lose it. He said that though Britain’s military responsibilities had vastly increased since 1913, the consequence of the reductions was that instead of six divisions our expeditionary force would be comprised of one divisiion of infantry and one divisiion of cavalry, which would be ready in fifteen days. Another infantry division would be ready between fifteen and forty-five days, and the third and fourth divisions would be ready Within four months.

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Taranaki Daily News, 17 March 1922, Page 5

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BRITISH ARMY Taranaki Daily News, 17 March 1922, Page 5

BRITISH ARMY Taranaki Daily News, 17 March 1922, Page 5

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