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LATEST CABLES.
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FIGHTING IN IRELAND. MANY CASUALTIES REPORTED.
LONDON, April 7th. Fighting between Free State and Re- public troops broke out at Mullingar yesterday and continued to-day both Thers using rifles and machine-guns, were many casualties.
FURTHER PARTICULARS,
DUBLIN, April 7th. The trouble which occurred at Mullingar was due to the arrest of six unarmed Free
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, APRIL 2918, 1827.
ALARMIST PICTURE OF EUROPE.
LLOYD GEORGE'S SPEECH TO
THE PRESS.
GENOA, April 7th.
THE RECENT SEAMEN'S STRIKE IN HONGKONG. SOME NEW REASONS. Reasons are given in the China Espress and Telegraph (London) for the recess
YELLOW PERIL. AMERICA'S FEARS OF CHEAP
CHINA RUBBER GOODS
The following is from the India Rubber World of March 1st: The world has
-THE-ARMY-BEDUCTIONS.
WEAK ENOUGH TO LOSE."^^
SIR HENRY WILSON'S GRAVE
WARNING.
- THE FIRST – WIRELESS,
~ELECTRICAT PIONEERS*- -
REMINISCENCES.
The jubilee commemorations of the I-
By far the most arresting and disquiet-titution of Electrical Engineers concluded
on February 23rd. -- An alarmist picture d' Europe was seamen's strike in Hongkong which we long speculated on what might come to speech made in the House of Commons pass were the sleeping Chinese "giant for many a long day was that delivered on to awake. That there was a probability
He
drawn by Mr. Lloyd George speaking at an Anglo-American Press dinner. pointed out that Russia and Germany combined contained over two-thirds of the people of Europe." The Russo-German treaty was the first warning that their voice would be heard. He adduced proof that Europe's danger was that there was no accepted frontier, from the Baltic to
have not previously encountered.
Our London contemporary says:- Various suggestions have been put for ward with be object of trying to explain what may be called the inner or real reason for the Hongkong seamen's strike. One fact seems to have been lost sight of
and there is reason to believe that it had considerable influenes upon the matter
the Black Sea, nad earnestly wished that either directly or indirectly. During the America had been at Genoa, because her very aloofness gevrs her a right to speak with peculiar authority,
He waseon-
war Chinese seamen and firemen were
Wilson on
"The
the ancient gation with its hundreds March 15th by Field Marshal Sir Henry
the Army Batimates. of millions" of cheap labourers unifying its forces in the arur. future and exerting Secretary of State for War had just os- far-reaching influence in the.commercial plained to the House the Army policy of world, has been conceded. Coming events the Government and the large reductions not always cast their shadows before, that they proposed. He did not disguise nor does history always repent itself to from the Commons that these reductions serious mallitary risks. The pits on our guard. It is a fact that entailed China may suddenly develop into one of Gorerument, he said, had bad to make a
Mr. A. A. Campbell Swinton mentioned that examination of the note-books of David Hogher showed that in 1879-80 he had made numerous' experiments in the trins-
of #idėlows telegraphy, though he did not mission of iguals by an elementary forms
waves, the existence of which lind not them know be was dealing with electromagnetia been dil discovered by Hertz,
SIE CHAXLIS PARsos auid that he first attacked the problem of driving dynamos while he was an apprentice ai Elswick in,
Statera by the Irregulars. This resulted Ruent that in his own life time Europe "mployed. in British ships in westor, the most formidable of all competitors for hard choice, for if they tried to insure1877, and he designed a rotary engine,
in the Free-Staters surrounding the Rebel barracks. The fight ended with three killed and many seriously wounded on both sides. Subsequently the Irregulars, overnwed by the threat of greater force, Jeft Mullingar:
- CITIZENS MHỘT. IN THEIR OWN
HOUSES.
would
cd.
the objects of the conference were attain. He issued a solemn warning of the dangers of allowing victory, to develop into oppression ani vingiance.
RUSSO-GERMAN AGREEMENT,
INEVITABLE.
LATER
to work.
the
but not until 1884 did he take of the turbice
woolt overburden the taxpayer and care financial disaster. Therefore, they hadap the construction accepted these military risks with their and of the electric generators it was to drive, gare as much trouble as the turbine itself. eyes open, and trustel that by wise policy which an acconat of their very high speel the contingencies would not arise.
The first turbine mado 18,000 revolutions a Such is the Government policy, implicit minute, and the armature of the dynatio in the reduction of the British Army to was less than 3in. in diameter. It worked 152.800 men, compared with 201,127 astutisfactorily from the start, though it was The scheme-astensibly for the relief of year and 172,800 in 1914. And half afar from economical in steam consumption, poor China"-contemplates the organi bour hater, as has been said, the Field which was 15 times greater than it is in Marshal, lately the Chief of the Imperial large modern units. The first turbo-alter- sation on a colossal scale of cheap Chinese General Stuff and the brain of the British nator was built in 1888. In 1899 tws 1,000 labour under cover of American. law in Aruyduring the Great War, got up and kw. turbo-alternators were ordered for Chign and immuns from American or gravely warned the House that, in his Elberfeld, Germany, and in 1913 a turb
But that it is deliberate judgment, these risks ought not alternater of 25,000 kw, was supplied to the Chinese tax collection.
to be run, and that if the Government's Commonwealth Edison Company, of Chicago. fraught with grave peril for American proposals were carried out we should have In apeaking of the introduction, over 80 Repro- *au. Army just sufficiently weak to lowe years ago, of alternating current transmis- industries is only too obvious.
sion at 10.000 volts at the Deptford station, of armies. The primary duty of an army Da. 9. Z. DE FERRANT said that among the
again a welter of blood, unless waters, and the Seumen and Firemen' the American trade. Commercial adven against every possible contingency theref which about 40 examples were built;
Union only" agreed to their retention insurers are even now moving heaven and ships on the conditions that they were earth to get the indorsement of Congress paid at the same rates as the British for a scheme, which, if carried out as members of the crew with whom they had planned, way utterly ruin many of the Consequently, the Chinese eat flourishing industries in the United drew, under compulsion, what was to them States and cause unemployment here to an hormons wage. Then, again, before reach alarming proportions.
war an Eastern could only sgu Mr. Lloyd George prefaced his alarm
011 this skle as In meüber of the description of Europe with a declaration
crew a ship going east on the that Lietuva was a landmark in the his. tory of the world, because the direction condition of the double voyage, which
meant that he would have to mail a LONDON, April 7th. Europa wou'd take depended upon its
decisions. He takes the impatient that ship till she returned to the part Three prominent citizens of Dauman who thought solution possible where he had signed on. He could not use
County Cork, a solicitor.
recalled that the lura fortnight, and
the ship as a means of working his passage tion of the Washington conference, far
to his home. Owing to the after-war chemist and an ex-draper, were shot dead exceeded estimates. fle did not say that conditions it was decided that the condi in their own houses by a party of armedienos would last three months, hue it
was imposible to think that deep rondtion of the double voyage should be dificulties could be overcome in a month. alter to that of the single voyag", sud sentatives of the New York garment trade a war." There were, he said, three kinds at Genoa that people who supposeal that at the port of destination in the East Dyer bill be enacted into, law it could The second kind of army was an army strong knowledge and experience but also of suitable He was, as confident as when he arrived that the crew should be paid off on arrival declare that if such legislation as the was to be strong enough to prevent war.electrical difficulties was lack not only of
way,
then who visited the town inte at night.
Other residents, including asschool-master, were wounded.
SUIT AGAINST AMERICAN POSTAL COMPANY,
SETTLEMENT EFFECTED.
New Yoak. April 27th.. The Attorney-General is withdrawing the suit against the Postal and Telegraph Cumimny concerning the control of the latter's turnover and war-time carning of
$4,000,000. He is accepting in return $1,6%),000. as compensation.
EARLIER CABLES RUBBER RESTRICTION. ONLY PARTIALLY SUCCESSFUL.
Loxpox, April 27th.
A
A
At the annual meeting of the Rubber Growers Association the Chairman, Sir Stanley Bois, pointed out that their voluntary restriction" output scheme had
ant,
311
He long ago
Russo-German agreement
RESOLUTION. ".
PARIS, April 27th,
The Cabinet has telegraphed M. Bar thou agreeing with the delegation's. attitude nstructing it to stand by the Cannes resolution, and to follow closely M. Paineare's policy towards the Soviets FRANCE AND THE RUSSO GERMAN TREATY.
Pakis." April 27th. The Cabinet has unfavourably received the suggestion of a Supreme Council met
This clause, of course, related only to
In trado
Publicity may help to prevent such on attack on American industry, but to kill the scheme outright there must be a direct, prompt, concentrated, and insist ent demand made upon Congress by the rubber and other manufacturers of the country"
POLITICAL CHANGE IN
times
No
INCREASED LIABILITIES.
They were in 20ft. lengths, ani va about 23 miles were laid, there were over 7,000 joints. About 14 miles of these original cables are still in daily use.
use For soma
any combinatit would be able to kerp
the Eastern. This resulted in closing the quickly make Shanghai the ready-to-wear enough to win war. The third was one insulasting materials. Another speaker, down the Russians and Germans, w
door at any rate, for a period of an either bind or blinkerdil. considered a
indefinite length, to further employment catre of the world, and that cheap coolis weak enough to lose war. And that, in Mr. G. W. PARZBIDOR, told how under hir inevitals
it
was the permanent at high rates of pay in western waters, labour under massed production could his view, the British Army now in Ferranti's guidance, when everything else any European combination to have hungry. Rússia equipped by angry monthly, as many dollars us they had business in six weeks. No tariff impost, stilled and startled. Germany: how long would it be before drawn sovereigas away from home. This however, high it might be, could control Europe was devastated ?
Sir Henry Wilson spoke very briefly, but He declare was a very big drop, and it is only such competition. If the ready-made: that if we, w dominant and triumph- afturat that agitation should have follow clothing trade were to be so seriously be faced facts, and his speech, was strictly
rubber
Some incidents that occurred when he abased triumph, vengeanceed with the object of either reilucing the affected, would the
logical from beginning to end. He left Ger would inevitably follow, as vengeance cut, or of raising the wages in Eastern gooda fare, any better! The chances are many out of the reckoning altogether, for was spreading the electric light abroad were overtook Germany.
waters to something approximating those were such legislation effected, the manu- FRANCE WILL STAND BY CANNES obtained under the British Trade Union factare of rubber goods would also be the British Army never had been framed parrated by Mr. B. DRAKE. He took a
This agitation led to the strike.
undertaker in China on a large scale. with any reference to the size of Continental Brush machine and lamp to Madrid in order initial advantage, armies. The Geddes Committee's recom- to give a demonstration in the Buen Retiro Though there, is probably no ground for And with such an accepting the dictum that the Southern coupled with nearness to the rubber mendations, therefore, had been based on a public gardens. As so wire could be bought, Government had engineered the strike plantations and the installation of up-to false bypothesis in this respect, and on yet a portion of the circuit between the dynamo with the object of forcing its recognition, date machinery, countless workers at beg another false hypother's as to the more and the lamp consisted of iron hurdles yet it is quite possible that something had rly wages would soon be turning out formidable character of modern armies in suspended from the trees, and some Gor been done by the Canton offeals, which, rubber goods at prices that no American dealing with savage tribes. If Lord Roberts, mans, who were struggling to get their while may not have actually caused the manufacturer could tope to meet. And he suid, by way of illustration, were alive to installation started first, were puzzled by strike... may have helped indirectly to prating of standard trademarks could day, and were to plan his Kabul to this arrangement, which they inngined to Kandahar march he would need three be part of the Brush system. After bring it about. The fact that a certain also be expected. amount of publieny has been given to this
the strength he required forty the light had been in planation leads one to suppose that
years ago. But liis main point was that all time, a Spaniard, on the strength of legal there is a certain amouhi of ruth in the story, but not in the garbled version that
Our Imperial responsibilities had enor acquisition, desired to take over the work- mously increased compared with 1914, Eng.ing, but regarding this as prematuro, Mr. bas been published,
Dr. Sun. Yat Sen, the Southern Pr.
Land, Ireland, Egypt, India. Hongkong Drake objected, and to settle the question who could vouch confidently for any one of pocketed an essential piece of the dynamo- not been fruitless, although it had not at Genos, and has decided that d's- received sufficient support to make it very less Germany defaults on May 21st. his army, and is
russion of reparations is unnecessary an-sident, Eas marched out of Canton with
there liabilities? Most of these were "pro- The result was that he was threatened with now somewhere near
foundly quiet" in 1914; who could say the imprisonment for theft, and with having to effective.
flest mated that 25,000 tons Nevertheless, br. Poincare will consent to Changsha on the middle Yangtze, where
same now? And to these were to be added fight a duel when be came out. less were produced thaus in the corres
a meeting of the Council if discussions he is opposed by a Northern army. The
the Bhine, Silesia, Constantinople, Palestine, Mr. JAMES SWINBURNE also had some ponding period of the previous year, and,
are limited to the Russo-German treaty,arrey never moved into Hunan province. allowing for reduction in relation to
JAPAN.
and Mesopotamia, together with the pact with amusing foreign experiences to relate In normal cutat, a further 10,000 as might when France would welcome the inclusion E., D.] These two armies have
France and the pact with Belgium. Sir Paris, where he had gone to establish a of the Litth Entente and Poland,
aut yet, and may never ease, into actual: be added. He hoped that
THE POSITION OF THE GENKO. Pegotiations
Henry ticked them all off, one after the Swan lamp factory, there were unaccount- GERMANS AND RUSSIANS
but the ostensible object of the with the Dutch Indies džoveroměnt in re
heable delays in getting the engine to start cers ay
other, solemnly and remorselessly; is the occupation of gard to co-operation in legislative action
FRATERNISE.
Changsha, venuse it has aeonsiderable The Tokyo correspondent of the London brought euch in turn to the attention of the after it had been created. Finally be was to safeguard the industry would be
strategic and political influence. The id Morning Post notes that in recent years House, and made members face it. Then invited to the engine-house, where Lo found energetically proceeded with and that an agreement in regard to combined action
ance of the Southern force was delayed the enro, er elder statesmen, has co- be asked how we were proposing to meet the engine covered with fowers, a bouquet would shortly be reacheil,
for some considerable length of time by sisted of Prince" Yamagata, Marquis these enormously increased liabilitica. The for himself, and the workmen in holiday lack of money. This was eventually over- Matsukata, Marquis Okuma, and Princo corse by imposing a Ivy on all the in- Saionji. Within a month Japan lost the War Secretary had concealed nothing, but, garb, with bottles of wine. His health Numerous police" were habitants of the Liang Kwang Provinces, two greatest of these by death; Prince Sir Henry stressed its weaning. Instead of and, that of the engine had to be drunk,
Yamagata and the Marquis Okums. The the spear-bead Expeditionary Force of six and fext day the engine was at work. question uppermost now is whether the divisions, which he had in 1914, we are to OFFICIALS ARRESTED.
depleted ranks of the Genro can be filled. Live: Though General Tanaka is expected to a military LONDON, April 27th.
succeed Prince Yamagata as Russo-Eathonian relations are strained
leader, he cannot stand for the Chosh in consequence of the Soviet arresting M.
clan, which has usually supplied the Paul, the Esthonish representative at
greatest military leaders for both politics Tfs, also three consular officiala. The In the House of Commons, Mr. Cham-
and war. Viscount Kiyoura has been ap thorities decline to release them or to berlain announced that as an agreement quors the seamer and Gretava decided on / pointed to succeed the late Prince as Pre-) explain. The Estonian Sir Henry thought the prospect so alarming Laken reprisals and arrested four members disputa regarding managerial functions, western experience led them to adopt the opinion is that the death of Prince Yama- of the Soviet Legation at Reval in connec an extension of the lock-out seemed in strike weapon to enforce their demands. gata definitely marks the end of an era Son with espionago,
evitable. The Government had appointed If it was possible to ascertain the amount and the decline of both the Genro and
Another most effective passage in his Court of Enquiry to investigate the of the levy imposed by the Canton officials the military party, giving way to a matter thoroughly and the first meeting it would very probably be found that it bureaucracy of industry and wealth. The would be held to-morrow. Both had been invited to send representatives, was approximately identical with the in- Ceara represented that deep-rooted rever speech was that in which he showed that
creases demanded in the wages.
ence of the Japanese race for elders and though Germany's army has been reduced This may quite conceivably be the whole superiors. To the Japanese mind nothing from 800,000 to 300,000, and Austria's ment, the engineering employers decided extent of the responsibility of the South could be more hitting than that distinguish from 400,000 to 30,000, there are to-day as The call on Banque Industrielle shares to open the workshops on May 3rd to men ern Government in bringing about the re-ed patriots relieved in old age from the many men under arma in Europe as there is confirmed. It will be payable between willing to accept the terms hitherto re-
cares of office, and placed by rank and were in 1913, and there are also sixteen cent strike. The levy was no doubt a June 15th and July 15th. Overdue pay-jected by the Unions, while intimating direct cause, but its effect was increased wealth far above the strife of party States which have no access to the warm mosts will be subject Avo per cent. their willingness to resume negotiations by the fact that the minds of the Chinese politics, should act as advisers" to the water. How did that make for peace, be interrat.
with the Union when the employers' had been prepared to respond to it by the Emperor and the Government, and soaked, and was Russia, with all her millions, memorandum was accepted.
RUSSO-ESTHONIAN RELATIONS.
BANQUE INDUSTRIELLE.
CALL ON SHARES CONFIRMED.
LONDON, April 27th.
N
WIRELESS SERVICES, AGREEMENT BETWEEN, VARIOUS
COMPANIES....
LONDON, April 27th."
The Maropai Company announces that as the result of an agreement between themselves, the Radio Corporation of America, the Compagnie General Tele- graphic Sanafil and the Gesellschaft. Fuer Drahtlose Telegraphio, a number of new international wirelee services will bo shortly opened, "k
THE RECONSTRUCTION OF
PETROGRAD.
PRELIMINARY AGREEMENT WITH GERMAN FIRM.
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PARIE, April 27th.
A mesage from Genon says the Russian de gatica had dance with the Clemens delegates The tenour of the sparches bas not transpired." present.
B
BRITISH" ENGINEERING
DISPUTE.
COURT OF ENQUIRY APPOINTED.
LONDON, April 7th.
Prior to Mr. Chamberlain's announce-
LONDON, April 27th.
Sir William Warrender Mackenzie holds the Court of Enquiry mentioned by Mr Chamberlain.
(Sir William Mackenzie has been Chair. man of many industrial commissions and is President of the Industrial Court)
THE MISSISSIPPI IN FLOOD. CAUSES WIDESPREAD HAVOC.
„New Youx, April 27th,
NEW SEAPLANE
FOR
including, of course, the Chinese Bremen and seamen.
These later declined to pay on the grounds that they were now earn ing very poor wages, and could not afford the amount demanded by the levy. The officials expressed their regret, but told then that the money must be paid some how; and apparently it was. In order to cover the deficit in their private exche
serious drop in wages they had exper-guide the nation along safe ways. ienced, as well as the realisation of the fact that their return to the wages pre- valent in the West was very problematical.
STEVEDORES' CONTRACTS. INCREASE OF PER CENT.
HOW TO REVIVE TRADE.
4
One Division and one Cavalry Division
ready in fifteen days.
A Second Division ready in a month or
six weeks.
rl
A Third and Fourth Division only after
months of delay.
that he expresse surprise at the War Secretary's candour in publishing such disquieting facts to the world.
likely to allow Eathonia to retain her warm water ports, even though Estonia was guarded by the League of Nutions? It was the ons marcasm in the speech.
These reductions will take place in ill brauches of the Service:
24 buttalions of infantry, including the " six regiments chiefly recruited in South, Ireland; the 3rd and 4th battalions of the five regiments which have four battalions; and two others still to be selected.
4 cavalry regiments disbanded last year
and now the equivalent of 5 more.. 47 batterive of artillery.
12 per cent, of strength of Engineers and
Signals,
Administrative and technical services-
henry reductions.
The Army Reserve now stands at the low figure of 65,000, and there is no Militia Pe serve. It is proposed to restart the Militia Reserva at once.
The Army will now consist of the following: 20 cavalry regiments, 162 infantry battalions, 162 hatteries of artillery, 10 Guarda battalions,
Auxiliary and ancillary services. This includes the British forces on the Indian Establishment, and the troops will be distributed thus.
HOME.
ABROAD.
11 cavalary regiments, 9 cavalry regiments," It was the 82 batteries,
60 batteries,
Many changea were also foreshadowed with respect to the Territorial Army: The estimates have been cut down from £7,250,000 to £5,600,000, saving of £425,000 being effected by abandoning certain units not got raised
The fourteen Territorial Divisions are all
to be retained.
The Field-Marshal spoke without a trace Lord Loverhulme, addressing the Lan- of nervousness in addressing the Commons caster Chamber of Commerce, said that for the first time. He was master of him- souo times they might be wise enough to self all the time, and chose his words with punish with imprisonment those who at scrupulous care. His elocution was perfect tempted to sauïder or poison business, his gesture well restrained. At a final conference between Mr. H.whether they were Labour leaders, Chan-speech of the expert, laying down pro- 62 line battalions, 62 lise battalions, P. White and Mr. G. M. Young, repre- callora of the Exchequer, or Governors of positious well within his own sphere of 1 Guards battalion.9. Guarda bastalions. senting the Hongkong General Chamber the Bank of England, because un tempt knowledge, which he knew could not be The troops ou the Rhine and in Silesia are The flood waters of the Mississippi are of Commerce, and Mr. Chan lu Ting and to murder busines was designed not against controverted. As a rule distinguished reckoned among those serving at home. causing widespread havoc. The town of Mr. Ip Lan Taun, representing the an individual, but against the life of the soldiers do not shine in the House of Com- Ferridays inundated. The residents, Chinese Chamber of Commerce, with rotation, and might affect many nations. mons, but here is the rare exception," and being forewarned, escaped, Six. other presentatives of the Stevedores in the The best way to put things right was not the Army debates will acquire a now in towns are directly menaced. The flood often of the Secretary of Chinese Affairs, ́conditions in Texas have not improved.
it was agreed that the rates of existing to expect something wonderful to be done terest from Sir Henry Wilson's presence.
- THE PROPOSALS contracts should be increased during by some wonderful man, but for all car. their currency by 22 per cent. 3 from nected with business to do each has their
This speech naturally quite overshadowed task a little better than they over did it 1st April, 1922.
before. If they did that, the good old that of the War Secretary, though sa az trade of their good old country would come example of lucid exposition this also had back again. Trade went to those nations great merits. The salient features of the The launchmen's guild, which is at pre-who attracted it, and no nation could buy Army Estimates for the coming year may seat negotiating with representatives of material and handle business better than be set out as follows: the Chamber of Commerce over conditions Great Britain. He was a firm believer in
Army Estimates for 1922-3 262,300,000 of employment, has created a diversion. British working men. He did not, believe Deducting non-recurring ex- by sending out a circalar appeal to so much in their leaders, but the rank and
penses
£51,750,000 Caesar
that is to say, to the in-fle of British workmen were" the beat
In order to carry out the reduction of dividual "ownOTE. The Chambers there-
£16,500,000 --numbers in the Army of fairly as possible, THE HAGUE, April 27th. fors called a meeting of those interested material in the world. That they bad withstood extremist leaders who would
the War Office will revert to the old pre-war Debating the Constitutional Reform and it was agreed, gently but firmly, to
-152,890standards of medical fitness. Officers" and The Town Council has decided to con- Bill, the Second Chamber rejected a zum - recall the negotiators to the conference direct them on the path leading to disrup
201,127 mea compulsorily retired will be offered clude a ten million guilder six per cont. ber of motions regarding the powers and table and terms very closely approaching tion and ruin wan the greatest testimonial that the rank and file were made of the right
48,000 compensation in addition to what they have Jou to be "ined in Switzerland at 97mitations of the First Chamber, includ- the men's demanda wore approved.
ing a motion for its abolition.
reply from the man is now awaited.
earned by service column)
HELSINGFORS, April 27th.
A big German company has signed a preliminary agreement for the reconstruc tion of Petrograd, including the restora tion of buildings, railways, water, sewage and other services The German, i sxchange, will be permitted to conduct the earthenware and brick industry. BIG LOAN FOR AMSTERDAM.
Per cont.
AMSTERDAM, April 27th.
PORTUGUESE AIRMEN.
LISBON, April 27th The Brazilian Lloyd steamship Bage has sailed for St. Paul's Rocks, where she is expected on May 8th. She carries the now seaplane for the trans-Atlantic flyers, CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM IN
HOLLAND.
LAUNCHMEN'S DISPUTE.
stuff.
Real reduction compared with
1921-2
Army establishment - (all
"ranke), 1922-3
Figures for 1931-2 Reduction on Isat year
(Continued at food of text
No reduction in the period of training. All Territorial artillery to be ou a 4-gun
bagis,
Infantry battalions to be reduced by seven officers and forty-three men, and the "establishment of each to stand at
twenty-one officers and 637 men.
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