IMPERIAL DEFENCE.
BRITAIN'S TERRITORIAL ARMY
GERMAN EXPERTS' SUGGESTIONS ADOPTED. LONDON, December 20. The Minister for War (the Right Hon. R. B. Haldane), speaking at Huddersfield, admitted that German military experts had suggested much of his scheme for a territorial army during his visit to Berlin in 1905. The Right Hon. Sir John Colomb, well-known as a prolific writer on defence matters, in a letter to the Daily Graphic, contends that defence restricted to terminal points in no sense fulfils the primary principle of the general defence of the Empire, which means security of the lines of communication between its several points.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 9012, 23 December 1907, Page 5
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101IMPERIAL DEFENCE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 9012, 23 December 1907, Page 5
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