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The King of Canada FOR THE first time in history
the North American con- tinent now has an actual physical monarchy, in the person of His Majesty King George VI who, from the moment he stepped ashore at Quebec on Wednesday night, became King George VI of Canada.
Although His Majesty sailed from London in the Royal liner Empress of Australia as King of England he automatically be- came King of Canada with his arrival in the senior Dominion.
When he enters the United States on June 7 for his five-day state visit to President Roosevelt -the first British Ruler to visit the great nation lost by his namesake in the eighteenth cen- tury-the King will once again become King of England, sinco it was as such that he received the President's invitation.
'Such constitutional technicali- ties are the direct result of the Statute of Westminster, enacted' in 1931 to give effect to the re- solutions of the Imperial Con- ferences of 1926 and 1930.
The Statute-Magna Carta of ·| the Dominions-changed the en- tire relationship between the Crown and the Empire. It made the King belong to his Domin- ions, and the Dominions to him. Each Dominion was designated a self-governing member of the Commonwealth, and the King became the head of each in- dividual State.
Inticed, it is almost certain that future Rulers of the British Commonwealth will be required- to be crowned separately, in the capitals of each Dominion, as King of Canada, King of Austra- lla, King of South Africa and King of New Zealand, Tech- nically, although there has been. but one Coronation, His Majesty is regarded in the Dominions not as King of England but as King of the Dominions.
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The Statute of Westminster implies that each new reigning. monarch shall, possible, visit his various: Dominions. India would under ordinary circumstances have re- ceived a visit from the Emperor and Empress had not conditions in that Dominion - been so un--- settled....
Because of the vast distances involved in travelling to Austra lia and New Zealand, it is un- likely that these Dominions will receive visits from the present Ruler and hla consort..YE
But it is safe to presume that His Majesty's successor, Prin cess Elizabeth, will be crowned. not only in Westminster Abbey, but in Ottawa, Canberra," Wel- lington, Durban and New Delhi.
TRYING TO ADJUST THE AXIS
IF BRITAIN WERE
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Is Our Army
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of to-day All Right?
HY docs Britain need an army? Is it neces- sary? This year it is costing £161 millions, which is £46 millions more than ever before and four times what it cost in 1914.
Surely, it may be said, a strong navy and air force should sumce for our protection! As tax-payers ought we not to protest? Is it not possible, indeed probable, that an inemclent War Office, with its empty-headed old generals, is to blame for this seemingly gross ex- travagunco?
Let us examine the problem. The functions which the army is ex- pected to perform are:
(a) Home Defence.
(b) Dolence of naval and aerial bases, which exist to enable our navy and air force to safe- guard communications and to operate freely in diftant theatres.
(o) Defence, and, to some extent, policing of the overseas Empire. (4) Fulfilment of treaty obligations with France, Portugal, Egypt
and Iraq.
(e) Provision" of strategió reserves. These various functions are DOL A guccession of alternatives. They may have to be carried out in full and simultaneously, as in the Great War.
THEY entail that the Army must be organised, trained and equipped to fight in every conceivable type of country and climate and against oppo- nents differing na widely as the fierco mountaineers of Waziristan, the Arabs- of Palesting and the mechanised forces of Germany.
·In mere...... yerbal · description, they.. have altered but little from those which an army, was expected to fulfi a quarter of a century ago.” Actually, however, there have been, both in} order of importance and method of fulfilment, immense changes.
Homo defence was a matter of minor importance in 1914, when a superior Navy appeared to afford a sure guard to the British Isles.
It has now, in A.A. defence, jumped Into first place, and seven divisions of the Territorial Army are to become front line troops, with an order of readiness "superior by far to that expected of the HEP.in 1914.
These troops have the responsibility, in oonjunction with ARP. talicori barrages, and aerial fighters, of pro tecting the heart of the Empiro, and success or fallupe may determine qur fate in the first few weeks of a war.
A BECOND great change is that of ́mechanika- tion. The. -borso, has practically vanished, and with him the burden of forage which, in the war. exoceded, not only in bulk," but even in weight, that of ammunition.
In place, petrol and oil would be in demand by thousands of tons. Apart from tha Tank' Corpa,” now growing Ɛspace, tho' whole of-the artillery, tho transport and the greater part of the cavaliy hayaʼbeen mochmalind, wind fantry can be carried in bounds ons- third at time by lorry,AN FREN "This change, though exocodingty costly, opens up, great: possibilities, of the Tensual" ad' open. Warfare where
conditions admit and instruments aro
skilfully exploited.
On the other hand, that form of
mechanisation which lies in the re Bren, for instance-has made tremen- placement of man by machine-by the dous bounds in recent years.
.With the numerous antidotes to the tank. It has so greatly increased the power of the defence that the aggres- sor is likely to succeed only if he man- nges to disarm his opponent by the Euddenness and overwhelming strength of his stroke.
trained. when fully
constitute striking instrument of great mobility and power. Adding to it our other fleld forcest two infantry divisions-in the Middle East and ene armoured and four infantry divisions at home, we shall have, exclusive of garrisons and Dominion troops, a total striking strength of some 20 divisions.
These changes, together with the re- pletion of stocks which had fallen dangerously low, and the construction of barracks to replace tenements no longer habitable, and the transfer, due to political changes of 10,000 men from the Indian to the Home Estab- THE Army is being re-ishment, account-largely for the re- organised into new formations as follows:
(a) Armoured Divisions,” of which 100 have one and, later, shall have two at home and one in Egypt. They consist of armoured and mechanised cavalry brigades, tank brigades and mechanised artillery.
(b) Divisions, in which infantry forms the principal constituent. They are
to contain siz or nina battalions, to gether with an appropriate attribu- tion of the other arms according to the task with which they are con fronted. For instance, the 7th Divi- rion in Palestine at the moment con. taina nine battalions, one horse cavalry regiment and a tiny allot. ment of guns.
Some of these divisions are wholly motorised and all their Œrm machine- AUDA Aro transported 00 lightly armoured carriers.
They are known as ́" Motorised Divi- sions." In the ordinary division, only ten Bren guns per battalion are on carriers, the heavy machine-gun batta tion is motorised and Infantry brigades can be transported, one at a time, by larry
The Territorial Beld army is fol lowing suit. It is to consist; in a-future not far distant, of one "armoured divi- sion" three motorised divisiona, und nine ordinary divisions; or
Bo organised and equipped, it will
cent immense Increasea In Army costs. Then there are the changes caused by the submarine and the seroplane, They render it difficult, until com- mand of the sea and ascendancy in the air have been achieved, for an Army to bo transported through hostile waters-more especially narrow waters such as the Mediterranean.
It has accordingly become doubtful if and when forces in Australasia and India can reinforce, or be reinforced by, forces in Britain and the Middle East, and troops in Britain reinforce troops in the Middle East.
Yet, in spite of increased: responsi- bilities in Palestine and Iraq, our field Army, together with reserves, is less by 125,000 inen than it was in 1914.
FINALLY, there is the change in the political situation to consider. In 1914. France, Russia, Japan, Bel- gtum, Serbia, were our allies. Italy and Epala were neutral. To-day, Italy, Japan and possibly Spain may be added to our enemica. Russia la an enigma, in whom we may place hope but not faith, and' theʻsmall' nations incline to be neutral.
Moreover, the dictator nations, in their role of aggressora, have the price- less beneft of the initiative." Thus, in the intervening years, the balance of power, particularly as concerns the
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By Lichty
JIBUTI
BORK
by Major-General H. ROWAN-
ROBINSON
Third of the series of articles on Britain's defensive Forces is by a distinguished soldier, who was awarded the Q3LO, and D.S.D. in the Great War. He was twice wounded, 'and. later was severely injured in an air cruali in Kordistani while serving there. For four years he was Inspector-Gen-·· eral of the Iraq Army. Is the `author of several authoritative books on military topics.
Army, has shifted greatly to our dis advantage.
Moreover, British interosis aru every- where impurilled at short-range.
Since 1935, the threat to France has increased enormously. Germany and Italy, with combined, populations of 120 millions, menace her so millions, some of whom may have, to guard the Pyreneca
THE Maginot Line is in- deed immensely strong, and, technically, tha defensive power of modern weapons is tremendous; but history toema with instances of the penetration of forti- fled Unes previously deemed impreg nable.
In this case, where the dispropor- tion of force is high and the initiative lies with the assailant, it would seen dangerous, I not suicidal, to rely in our plans on the power of the French to maintain their line for a long period without support.
Enough has now perhaps been sold to show that the War Offes and the generals would have been wanting in their duty bad they failed to domand an increase in the Army's strength.
Is that Army, with its present strength, organization and system of recruitment, equal to the taaks Likely to fall to its lot?
Would the dispatch to the Conti- nent of 18 divisions, say 250,000 troops, spread over a period of six months. constitute a serious reinforcement in a battle of millions to an ally whose con- tinued existence is essential to our own?
These are questions for our people to decide, bearing in mind the changes in conditions, timperial and interna- tional, which have been outlined..
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Tealby, Lincolnshire.
A BRIDESMAID was carried up the aisle at a wedding at Osgodby, near Market Raser, recently.
Later she was wheeled to the re- ception in a bath chair.
She was Miss Kathleen Horton, life-long friend of the bride, Miss Frances Anne Wilson, plat BE YOUTHFUL PLEDGE
As girls they camo to an agreement that when one of them was to be married the other would be, brides- maid,
Then Miss Wilson met. Mr. Frank Markham. They became engaged.
Then Miss Horton broke her ankle. Mias Horton said: "Priends naich would have to give up the idea of being a bridesmaid, but I was termined to moon with it?