THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. FRIDAY, AUGUST 2, 1907. INDIA'S NEW ARMY.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8501, 2 August 1907, Page 4

THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. FRIDAY, AUGUST 2, 1907. INDIA'S NEW ARMY.

The significance of the work that Lord Kitchener is accomplishing in India is at last beginning to emerge. The quarter of a million troops maintained by the Government of India have been converted into a modern army of nine self-contained divisions, such as the British Empire nowhere else possesses. The revenues raised in India pay the entire cost of this army, including every penny that is spent upon the native troops and the whole expense of the British regiments, not omitting a liberal allowance based upon War Office etsimates, to cover all recruitment and pension charges. The army of India differs from that of Great Britain in that it is being built up upon a consistent plan. Lord Kitchener has been able to work unmolested by Secretaries of State for four years. He already has four divisions ready to march at a moment's notice, and ! by 1909, when his tenure expires, the i great scheme of reorganisation upon j which he is at work will be so tar ; completed that the entire nine di v- i isions will be ready for active service \ though their redistribution will not ; be finished until 1911. The army o'.' ; India is available for the defence of , the British Empire wherever threat- ,' ened, and in Lord Kitchener's hands ■ it is becoming an instrument second ; only to the British Navy for this j purpose. I