and integrity, nothing has moved me more than
the passionate devotion to my throne expressed both by my Indian
subjects and by the Feudatory Princes and the ruling chiefs of India,
and their prodigal offers of their lives and their resources in the
cause of the realm. Their one-voiced demand to be foremost in the
conflict has touched my heart, and has inspired to the highest issues
the love and devotion which, as I well know, have ever linked my Indian
subjects and myself. I recall to mind India's gracious message to the
British Nation of good-will and fellowship which greeted my return in
February, 1912, after the solemn ceremony of my Coronation Durbar at
Delhi, and I find in this hour of trial a full harvest and a noble
fulfillment of the assurance given by you that the destinies of Great
Britain and India are indissolubly linked.

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438,000 MEN RECRUITED.

Statements in House of Commons, Sept. 10, by Prime Minister Asquith and
Bonar Law.

The House went into Committee of Supply, Mr. Whitley in the chair.

On the question that an additional number of land forces not
exceeding 500,000 of all ranks be maintained for the service of the
United Kingdom, in consequence of the war in Europe, for the year
ending March 31, 1915.

_Mr. Asquith_ (Fife E.) said: The House of Commons voted earlier in the
session, before any outbreak of war was anticipated, under normal
conditions, under Vote A, 186,000-odd men for the regular army. It is
perhaps not necessary to point out, but it may be convenient to put it
on record, that the total number of men under Vote A does not include
either the army reserve, the special reserve, or the territorial forces.
When we come to vote the financial provision under Vote 1 of the army
estimates, which is consequential upon the passing of Vote A, we make
provision not only for the 186,000 men already sanctioned for the
regular army, but also for the army reserve. In the subsequent Votes 3
and 4 provision is made for the special reserve and territorial force.
The army reserve and the special reserve are not called upon to serve
until, under regular constitutional machinery, consequent upon the
outbreak or imminence of war, they are summoned to do so. It may be
convenient to the committee to know that at the time when war broke out
and when the reserves were called to the colors the state of things was
this: Parliament had