From the first of next month respon: sibility for the military services affecting the British Terriiorial Army will be transferred from the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for War to the appropriate Military Member of the Army Council. This oficial statement has far more significance than might be attached to it by the casual observer who Is inured to departmental changes. It really implies the formal bestowal of War Office con dence on the citizen army. Incidentally it pays belated tribute to the Joe Louis, the young Detroit negro, has made no mistake in disposing of Max Bauer's opposition to recovery of, the laurels once held by Jack Johnson, The four-round contes? which took place in New York on Tuesday seems to have done nothing for Bier except prove his courage in facing punishment. Louis had \dy shown exceptional capabiliti2e and his latest victory will go. far to encourage those who claim that he remises to be even better than Jack Johnson. The present champion. James Braddock, is in 2 sense known quantity for it is generally that he was fortunate in finding Mex Baer out of condition." Brad= dock, however, must be credited with an intention to hold) what he has won and presumably will take proper note of that fight in the—Yanke Stadium. "For Louis has now the un. disputed right to. challenge Braddocle and nowadays the Champion cannot refuse such a challenge unless he be ed in his lifetime, for the Territorial necessary leave, Army and the British Expeditionary Force which gained "Contemptible"
uurels were the direct product of his administration at the War Office. The Territorials did splendid work in the Great War under the handicap of "cinderella" "treatment. Lord Kitchener did not trust them when he set about the improvisation of the! troops which magnificently bore his name. Yet even in the earliest days of the War, before the Armies Won natural such an event It also was affected by uncertainties over policy and by the still evident indifference of the regular army authorities, It is expected that now the War Office has given expression to lls firm belief in. the Territorial Army the flow of recruit: ment will increase.
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