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Show IPcor Wages In Drltlnh Army. i In the BrlttBh army tlict dally pay of n rccotid Ueutonnnt Is It, 3d. (with deductions), and when that otneor Goes on a government transport ho has to pay Cs. Cd. a day (or hit food alono. Tho pay of a matnr la 13s. 7d. a day, avcrgo sorvlce 18 to 20 years, so he would bo aVout 40 years of age and very llkoly married. Thero aro no married quarters for him and ho Is allowed no lodging allowance. Hitherto Hith-erto he had hopes of hotter pay and allowances whon ho bocaino command-Ins command-Ins officer of a roslmeutal district, hut thotyji oppolntnieuts havo been swept awnand n major has nothing to look forward to as such, unless bo Is a staff collego limn. Tho only ofp.cors who If:-. recalvo a living wage aro tho staff, tho royal engineers and the departments. depart-ments. Tho regimental officers, tho backbono of tbo army, receive little or nothing and, unless thoy havo friend who can provldo for them with an annual nllowanco, they are bound to got Into debt, |