The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-12-28
LORDS ROBERTS AND KITCHENER
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Major General LaWton Killed in the Philippines
Other Telegraphic News Of
Special Interest.

keen as men. Almost every woman
be she a star in society or on the stage
tells you with deep yearning that she
wants to be nurse. If men and WO-
men were to be allowed to have their
own way just now Great Britain would
very speedily be depopulated and find
its populace on African soil.
The wave of enthusiasm which is
rolling all over the country is being
famed by all public speakers and
newspapers.
last evening Sir Richard Temple
talked CT an army of 10000 men.
me War Office tonight considers
that it can get all the men and horses
it wants. Lord Wolseley, who has
been openly severely attacked, has
completely changed his views, and is
now for all the cavalry that can be
mustered.
Officials in the artillery depots and
manufactures are working double
gangs, night and day, in strenuous
those taken, while the manufacture of
lyddite shells is being rushed to its
utmost capacity.
At the army clothing depot the staff
has been nearly doubled and WORKS
night and day, like all other depart
mems, in getting khaki uniforms COM
pleted and packed for the front.
People are really almost forgetting
Christmas in the absorbing enthusi-
am of war. Trades-people would be
hard hit were it not that they manage
to recoup in money spent for the enor-
NOUS number of presents to be sent
out to South Africa for officers and
men.
But altogether from today on we
might easily imagine that England
had commenced new war, much larg-
er and more interesting than the first
Such is the dominating note among the
English people this day. All say for
ward; none say enough.
Section D Again.
The announcement that the men of
Section D of the army reserve are to
be recalled to the colors is significant
of the strain which the present situa-
tion has imposed upon the resources
of the regular army. The whole army
reserve consists of four classes of sec
tions, A, B, c and d.
Section A is a small reserve of 5000
men. Section B consists of men who
have completed their color service
and are working out in the reserve
the remainder of their engagement.
Section G comprises men who for vari-
Gus reasons have been transferred to
the reserve before completing the nor
NAL period of service with the colors.
Section D is supplemental reserve
consisting Of men who on completion
of their first period of engagement are
enlisted to serve for a further period OF
four years in reserve, and are not liza
BILE to be called out until after the rest
of the reserves.
The calling up of Section D is there
fore an indication that other sections
are or very shortly will be used up.
The total strength of the reserves,
according to latest returns, was 82,005
men. The army in South Africa will
in the immediate future, according to
the War Office plans, be increased fully
so per cent. Three full divisions Of
the regular army are now in process
of arrival at the Cape, ON their way
thither Or under sailing orders. Large
drafts to bring regiments already at
the front up to full war strength to re-
place the wastage caused by casualties
are being sent out.
Ihe great force OF volunteers and
yeomanry which is to be organized will
still further swell the number The
total Of reinforcements already ar
ranged for follows: Volunteers, 1000:
yeomanry, 5000; fifth division, 1900
(about 5000 already landed at the
Cape) sixth division, 11,000; seventh |
division, Il 900; cavalry brigade, 1900; |
drafts, 10000; Canadians |
and Australians, 1000. Total, 58,20O |
Deducting casualties, these rein |
,orcements will. bring the British for .
,es in South Africa to 10000. not in /
eluding the colonial and irregular f.
.roOps of Cape Colony and Natal, !
which probably will number 10000.
The action of the city Of London,
through the Lord Mayor and Corpora /
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