THE ARMY BILL.
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DEBATED IN HOUSE OF LORDS. PROBLEM -OF DEFENCE BEING IN VESTI GATED. (Received Last Night, 9.35 o'clock.) LONDON, April 22. The House of Lords is discussing the annual Army Bill. Lord Midleton said the danger of invasion had increased since Lord Haldime's scheme of 1907. He asked how the Government was going to get the i equisito numbers. Lord Hialdane replied that the Committee of Imperial Defence was investigating the probk-m. The existing scheme was based Tipon the fact that Britain way an island power responsible for a great Empire. Voluntary service would enable them to maintain the army and navy required. The country should not be unduly nervous. It was unnecessary, he said, to belong to cither the "Blue Water" School, which did not believe in the possibility of invasion, or the "Blue Funk" School, which was living in daily fear of invasion. ; Lord Curzon appealed for the appointment of a conference, composed ,f loaders of both parties, to endeavour to solve the Army question.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 23 April 1913, Page 5
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176THE ARMY BILL. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 23 April 1913, Page 5
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