A. certain amount of emergency: work had to be provided for amd the China situation was reinforced from Malaya and India. No big defence force was needed but Hongkong may need reinforcing now. Palestine contintied to absorb two brigades and here is_no immediate prospect of return to. normal numbers, The trooping programme dealt with the last of the emergency moves and A feature was the commissioning of the second motor troopship, the Dunera and the decision to build @ third ant time run the servic ax an alt motor ship one by arrangement with the P. & 0. and British India lines, The 1987 mancotivres wore held fon commandeered land in Bast Anglia and Kent and a result was the decision to buy 16,000 acres in the area lying between Dover and Canterbury. An extension was also made on Salisbury Plain to give more room in the north and to. bring in land about the Wylye valley in. the south which will add more variety of Terrain. And finally' with all the changes it was decided Tate int the year that the Army should have a loser and more intimate link with the public and to secure this a Public Relations Directorate was. formed at the War Ofiee under Maj.-Gon. Guy: Dawnay. This is a brief survey of innumerable changes made in' 1997 fand the year is marked as the one in which the decision was made to promote earlier and to place in key' posts a younger type of General Brig. E. P. Quinan of the Jhansi [Brigade is the latest selection for major-general and Col, A. P. Sayer is made President of the R. E, and Signals Board,
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