LORD ROBERTS.
AND THE TERRITORIALS
,A MAKE-BELIEVE ARMY.
(Received This Morning, 12.20 o'clock)
LONDON, November 28,
Lord Roberts, speaking at a banquet given by the Association cf / the Men of Kent, said that discipline was ! not being installed amongst the territorials by the present training. Their powers of mobilisation and transport were totally inadequate, and as a defensive force against an invasion, were practically useless. It was foolish, he said, to trust the defence ofthe country to a make-believe army of untrained, under-officered and undermanned territorials. The officers should intimate to the Government that they were not. in a position to carry out the duties entrusted to the forces. Unless they were given the manhood of the country they could not guarantee the safety of the British Islands.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 29 November 1912, Page 5
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128LORD ROBERTS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 29 November 1912, Page 5
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