London, Oct. 13.
An Army order issued today deals with the application to the Territorial Army of certain of the new measures introduced to improve the conditions of the commissioned service in the regular Army.
Circumstances differ materially in the two forces and the reduced ages fixed for retirement introduced to stimulate promotion and to regulate the flow of intake and wastage in the regular Army will not, therefore, generally apply to the Territorial Army.
The system of time promotion to the ranks of Captain and Major is also not appropriate.
The normal tenure of Territorial Army appointments will be reduced in line with the regular Army from four years to three but, to maintain a practice of proved value in the past in the case of the Territorial Army appointments extensions will still be permitted.
New rates of pay, with effect from November 1, are also announced.—Wireless through Reuter.
If the Arab neighbouring ever resort to the of massacring Jews, Mr. declares, they will not prevent the realization of Zionism but only disgrace themselves, "We see the possibility," he adds, "of full and fruitful ce-operation in Palestine, embracing Jews and Arabs as well as neighbouring countries, but on the essential ition that basic rights of the Jewish people in Palestine are recognized."
The so-called ultimatum, a other things, threatened "the calamities in history" unless the Zionists agreed to an annulment of the Balfour Declaration supporting the establishment of a national home for Jews in Palestine.
This famous Declaration was declared null and void in a resolution Biosem iner-Pardantentary Congress in Cairo on Tueday. 7: Cee r-Par] C
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.