We Are Glad To Note That On Friday Week In
the House of Commons the second reading of the Bill legalising marriage with a deceased wife's sister was carried by an enormous majority. The principle of this Bill had already......
In Regard To The Regular Army, Mr. Haldane Pointed Out
that in order to mobilise a hundred and fifty thousand men on the existing basis we should need something like an additional fifty thousand men. A large number of these, roughly......
Mr. Roosevelt Paid A Visit To Harvard, His Old Ljniver-
sity, last Saturday, and in the afternoon addressed a meeting of the undergraduates. Beginning with a defence of athletic sports, and especially football—so _ long as it was......
On The Afternoon Of Friday Week Eleven Of The Survivors
who remained on board the wreck of the 'Berlin' at the Hook of Holland were rescued after heroic exertions on the part of the Dutch lifeboat crew. The crew worked thirty-six......
The Chief Details Of The Plan For Increasing The Provision
of officers may be summarised thus. The minimum standard of training for an officer is to be a year's attachment to a Regular unit. If, however, a man has served with credit for......
We May Sum Up Our Objections To Mr. Haldane's Scheme
by saying that we do not believe that at the best it can give us a better body of Auxiliary troops than we have got to-day, and may very well give us a worse. It is quite......
We Have Expressed Elsewhere Our Grave Anxiety At Mr....
proposals, and our dread that if they are carried out they will mean a most serious reduction in our military strength. We may note here one or two additional , points. It must......
On Monday Mr. Haldane Introduced His Scheme For The...
of the Auxiliary Forces in a speech lasting three hours. What ho proposes is roughly as follows. He asks to be allowed (1) to abolish the Militia altogether ; (2) to create a......
We May Fill In This Skeleton By Saying That The
second line is to be three hundred thousand strong, and that the period of service will be four years, but a man will be allowed to withdraw before if he gives three months'......
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