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When allow- tary purposes' last year. ance, has been made for the higher costs of to-day-due to the increase in the soldiers pay the non-effective" charges arising out of the late war, and the rise in retiredasutes-we have approximately returned to the normal expenditure on the Army before 1914. The reduction of £500,000 is attributed chiefly to the ter minal charges, being lower than last year; while savings on administrative services have been effected to balance the increas ed provision which has to be made in respect of materiel owing to the deple tion of surplus war stocks and the ris of prices. This continued reduction in military expenditure will, of course, be welcomed by the taxpayer. who in time of peace is too much inclined to grudge the outlay of money on the national in- suratice purpose for which the Army is maintained, while the fact that during the last three years, our military budget, has been cut down by eighteen millicas should prove to the world at large our eiruest determination to carry out policy of disarmament so far as is com- patible with our national security and our many commitments overseas. It is to be hoped, however, that, as conditions now exist throughout the world, definite limit has been reached in the numerical reduction of our military forces. At any rate it is some relief to find that the small decrease of 900 men in the establishments which is proposed by the War Office this year will only affect administrative and auxiary units and will not still further denude the Eghting line
Our present military position is one that no serious student of history ent view without misgiving. Europe is still sa arried-camp. Its statesmen are work- ing whole-heartedly to preserve peace, but all the causes that make for war are. Our military strength is in existence. considerably less than it was in 1914. Then we could place an Expeditionary Force of four divisions in the Beld with in a fortnight of the declaration of war and two more, divisions within a com- To-day paratively short space of time.
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it might be possible for us to have two divisions ready for war within the first fourteen days after mobilization, but
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Mr. Amery, Secretary of State for the Colonies, replying to the toast of His Blajesty's Blinisters," at the annual din
Trades Association at the Criterion Re- staurant, said that the most serious aspect of the industrial sitention to-day was the loss of skill on the part of the workers: Boys were not being apprenticed to- The position of the Territorial Army
Further, they were of employment. does not appear to be entirely satisfae day to the skilled trades, because of lack tory. Its numbers have risen slightly tering labouring or some of
of
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strength represents only Te jer cent. of When the the authorized establishment in the ease
of officers and 75 per cent. in the caso capped by this. of other ranks. The Secretary of State ex- chase of plains that one reason for this state of things is that greater attention is now officers to the
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Joss of skilled labour. All indastries should pull together for the preservation of the national skill, which was their real national, capital It was as much to the interest of the to that of the capitalist. that And somehow or other the friction existed in industry to-day should be over
He appealed for a greater no- complete the term for which they enliste bility of labour: which would it a man
being paid by comisted; but the fact working man as
Eype of man to be that
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, and it is not possible to forecast how
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come,
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give their employers an opportunity of tion, and must get rid of unnecessary. barriers, and could I not allow the develop- gaining general experience and physical ment of any form of tyranny and of any the par- which gave Storys, which should make them more form of organization efficient in their business." Let us hope ticular set of persons the opportunity to that this appeal will not fall upon deaf exploit the needs of the whole community. cars, now that the Territorial Army Mr. Amery also referred to the need for ficially recognized as "the medium of lightening the burden of taxation on this the expansion of the military strength of shoulders of the workers if we were to the nation in the event of emergency enter the markets of the world of an
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