Ogden Daily Standard | 1914-11-20 | Page 1 | More Men for British Army

IRE MEN FOR BRITISH ARMY I Additional Million Soldiers to Be Trained for Service Aside From Territorials. London, Nov. 20, 1:57 p m The house of commons today formally passed the vote for the supplementary army estimate, which provides for an additional army of one million men. This is tho additional million men mentioned by Premier Asqulth in the house of commons last Monday. It is apart lrom the territorials, and is additional to the 1,100,000 men said already to be under arms. Referring to the supplementary estimate, es-timate, Harold J Tennant, under secretary sec-retary of state for war, said, the official of-ficial view was that this further million mil-lion men ought to bo sufficient, so far as the government was able to se ot present, to crown British arms with success. He declined to ghe the actual number of men enlisted but remarked that the figures recently recent-ly given out by the prime minister, which were roughly in the neighborhood neighbor-hood of 1. lOO.Oon wero below rather than above the actual total The present Idea of the war office. Mr Tennant continued, was to duplicate dupli-cate the territorial force, making one battalion lor home defense and the other for foreign service. With regard to suggestions that Lord Kitchener's army of recruits should be treated unlike the professional profes-sional soldiers, Mr. Tennant remarked; re-marked; "The chief characteristic of Ixml Kitchener is not sentiment, nor even persuasive eloquence These advo- i cates of differential treatment would make him change his decision in a matter of which he feels strongly." nn '