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HOW 10,000 MEN WERE OVER- menstres, he said, to enneen his 4th Division from observation, and partly owing to these special precautions, and partly by moving undercover of darkness. he had reason to believe that his 4th Divi. sion reached Salfron Walden undiscovered. As I indicated to you yesterday the The military correspondent of the Lun-division marched in resemal columns, and don Daily News" wrote recuntly:- the men took cover or disguised themselve 01. In the maneuvres just concluded thers and their guns whenever an aeroplane ap. C.36 has been more under trial than the mere peared. All told, there were some tenor efficiency of the combatant although even thousand men in that division, with Ic.sa in this department a score of experiments mattor of two thousand horses, about forty has been tried, of which the principal-are told gans, and sixty Maxims. Yet the the double company system, the practics, sien of the Red Army either failed to .036 bility for war of our railroad service, and discover it or else failed to identify it as a |,057 reconnaissance by aerial craft,
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The reply to the double company pro blem has yet to be furnished by the War Otice, the air scouts have achieved a fair raensure of success, but the railway com- panies, o far as the conveyance mabreuvre areas is concerned, bava do monstrated completely their ability to handle quickly and effectively the many trainlonds of troops that would pass over) their lines in the event of war.
portion of the Bise Force,
This failure does not reflect upon the iruren-they recognise their limitations, and they would be the last to admit that their craft in its present incomplete- ness will either prohibit or revolutionise have to extend their range of knowledge, war, The commanders, of the future may
hat victory will still go, as it has gone in the past, to the more masterful strategist.
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*Flagship of Admiral Alfred L. Winslos, K.C.B., C.V.O.,C.M.C., Commander-in-Chief,
VALUE OF VETROL-DRIVEN LORRIEN
So generally has the success of the air- One of the experiments which I hinted men beets hailed as complete that I hesitate at ia my opening sentences, and one which almost to insist upon the limitations which was tried on a large scale in the non- the maneuvres have disclosed. . While the combatant services, had to do with motor message which attributed to the aeroplane transport and the success of the internal service the impossibility of bringing the combustion, petrol-driven lorry has con- pposing forces to grips, has now beenfirmed the Army Counell in an already refuted by the reports of the actual clore favourable opinion. contact which did take place, and by the opinions of competent authorities that the lighting about West Wickham and Aahdon that the War Department should keep up❘ Argus in actual warfare would have cost 6,000 in time of pace the large number (about Vigilante lives, there is still a tendency to ascribe thousand) of motor-lorries that whould ba the premature conclusion of the manwayres | required in the event of war. A scheme to the too fully informative aeroplane. for anbeidising civilian users of petrol. Donard de Lagreo
driven lorries has therefore been formulat-
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Basing their deductions upon a con.ed, under which the Government hopes to clusion that has no official sanction, some provide a reserve of vehicles similar to Lynx writers have gone so far as to imply, and thors used by the Blue Army, and to ensure Protes in some cures to state; that the aircraft in such a degree of standardisation of spare Skys ́a few years will abolish strategy, and make parts, tyres, etc., as will to some extent Fronde the war of the future a mere clash of arum facilitate the dificulty of repairing and in which weight, courage, and auto bersausintaining in the Geld. will be the only determining factors. TheyIt is gratifying indeed to note the noc- have to all intents and purposes doomed cess which has attended most of the major Mousquet the strategist, and have subordinated the experiments made by the War Office during Manche tactician to the Berserker. Yet I venture the East Anglian campaign, but wille to assert that this is not the opinion of the accepting and appreciating these measures Chief of the Imperial General Staff or of of success, the public must be careful ia the general officers whom he commands. appraising transport, aircraft, communica. Emdeu
At the conference held in Trinity Col- tions, ste, not to rate the success too high- Gaziseran lege yesterday Sir John French said that Ly, or to accept it as perfection or Duality. Illis the "information regarding each other available to both sides was "fairly com. plete," which is a very different thing from "fully complete,” and which has been said of earlier nupieuvres wherein the air scout played no part.
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* Vlagship of Capt. (Commodore' Boucicant. Commanding uha local defence Indo-China
Sir Ernest Mason Satow, formerly British Minister in Tokyo, has presented to the Cambridge University Library 371 volumes of Japanese books: The collection From the explanations made at the con
is especially rich in manuscript and print- ference by the opposing commanders the inference may also be drawn that the aerial works relating to Christianity in Japan Tiger reconnaissance, while as a rule it discovered in the 16th and 17th centuries. It would
Taingtan mates of troops, yak. failed to obtain those probably be difficult to find alsewhere in Vaterland details which are quits sa essental to the Europa so large un assemblage of books on information of the Commander-in-Chief,
this subject. They form a welcome supple- Calabria ment to the Ashton collection acquired
WHOLE DIVISION CONCEALED."
Nor were the aviators always succes-ful last year,
in locating masses of troops. Sir Douglas Haig, who acknowledged that he was welą served by his airman, confessed that on
The captain of the Britishi ateam | A-2 Tuesday night he was unaware of the trawler Hoi Furg, which has been sont A position of the Blue 4th Division General over to operate in Japanese waters, re- -6
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