The Archive · 1925

Railway Reserve Corps

Force for Use in Case of Foreign Danger Only London, Jan. 31, Although he denies any know-lodge of the action of the Army authorities in conjunction with the railway companies for the recruit ment of railway reservists for the purpose of establishing a technical reserve corps, Mr. Stephan Walsh, the former Seretary of State for War in the Labour Cabinet, in a letter to Mr. Arthur Henderson, which was published by the Trades Union Congress and the Labour Party, explicitly states: "The sole reason for the development of a supplementary reserve is for pu Poses outside the United Kingdom if the mobilization and despateh of expedition ary force is necessitate Mr. Walsh adds that an Army order gaurantecs that the reserve shall not be liable to be called out in aid of the civil power.—Reuter,

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