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Show GEN, LORD KITCHENER PRAISES WEST POINT Special Cable lo The Tribune. LONDON. March 10. A high compliment compli-ment lias been paid the West Point Military academy by the foremost soldier of the age. General Lord Kitchener. In outlining :t scheme for an army of defense, de-fense, Lord Kitchener recommends Hint tho military college for the training of officers be modeled after the American institution, lie says It turns out officers of-ficers equal If not superior in military education to any in the world. Lord Kitchener's scheme gives the Australian commonwealth, for jC 1,7-12,000 a year, a force of S0.000 men half to defend the cities and ports, and half to be free to operate as a mobile striking force anywhere any-where in Australia. This force to be composed of eighty-four battalions of Infantry, In-fantry, twenty-eight regiments of light horse, fifty-six batteries of artillery, soven communication companies and fourteen companies of engineers. |