§ 40. Brigadier-General SPEARSasked the Secretary of State for War when he proposes to make a statement as to whether the Army is being organized purely for Home defence, being trained with a view to possible intervention on the Continent, or are colonial wars only being envisaged?
§ Mr. WALSHI can make the statement at once. The British Army is being organised, now as before, with a view to the military defence of the Empire, wherever the necessity for action may unhappily arise.