London, Mar. 11. IMPORTANT changes as well as a large number of improvements affecting service conditions of all ranks in the British Army were announced by Mr. Leslie Here-Belisha, Secretary of State for War, in introducing the Army Estimates in the House of Commons yesterday. The Estimates total £85,357,000, representing an increase of £ 22,237,000 compared with last year.
From the troops raised at home under the voluntary. system, Mr. Here-Belisha declared, there could be mobilized in an emergency over 500,000 soldiers for action in various fields of Imperial responsibility. More men, he said, were trying to join the British Army than required.
They were applying at the rate of nearly 60,000 a year.
Such difficulties as confronted the Government, the War Secretary declared, were not of manpower but óf its correct organization.
The House listened attentively to the Minister's disclosure of a variety
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