Captain FABERasked the Secretary of State for War whether the preparations of the Territorial Army are sufficiently advanced for them to be able to repel 1022 invasion by foreign regular forces without undergoing six months' preliminary training?
§ The SECRETARY of STATE for WAR (Mr. Haldane)Owing to the shortness of the period during which the Territorial Force has been in existence, it is not yet possible to gauge the standard of efficiency which that force may be expected to reach. The Army Council have, however, in view the importance of aiming at so training the force that it may be competent to take the field at the outbreak of hostilities.