EMPIRE DEFENCE.
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SPEECH BY MR HALDANE. TERRITORIAL DIVISIONS. WHAT THE COLONIES COULD DO. IN AN EMERGENCY. Received February 22, 8.20 a.m. LONDON, February 21. The Right Hon. R. B. Haldane (Secretary of State for War), speaking at Newcastle, declared that Canada would be easily able to add to the Army five or six territorial divisions for her own defence and the assistance ot the Empire. "The Times" says:—"ln an emergency Australia might produce five. New Zealand one, and South Africa four or five divisions, which aided by Great Britain's fourteen second line divisions and sixteen first line divisions, would give the Empire the equivalent of twenty-three army corp.-*.'' "The Times" adds: —"Germany has also twenty-three army corps."
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3121, 23 February 1909, Page 5
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126EMPIRE DEFENCE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3121, 23 February 1909, Page 5
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