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MARKSMEN FIGHT 'PHANTOM' ARMY: NEW SYSTEM OF ARMS TRAINING
Experts in weapon training at the|ing effected a landing, The whole Small Arms School at Hythe, Kent, training. machinery, and personnel are responsible for turning out of- can be seen at work. ficers and non-commissioned officers There are snipers using rifles 'as technicians under a new system, fitted with telescopic sights;-camou- designed to offer the most effective | flaged stalkers with the 5.5 anti- opposition to the new machines of tank, rifle menacing approaching which the modern army is now com-armoured fighting vehicles; and pla- posed.
toons with their mortafs dropping
Until recently the Short Magazine | bombs behind earthworks. Lee-Enfield was the principal arm There are also light machine-gun- of the infantry soldier and his train-ners spraying the field with-bullets ing was confined, for the most part, and thinning the ranks of advancing to the stationary target with the infantry; riflemen throwing, grena- bull's-eye. as aiming mark.
[des; and Brén gunners from-a tipod very like a music stand, throwing, with hosepipe effect, tracer bullets at an agroplane target,
As though to see that the rifleman was not called on to exercise his mind and thereby enhance his value in the field, ranges were accurately measur- ed and clearly manked. It was, of course, a state of affairs far removed from Sevice conditions.
*BATTLE PICTURE
The coastal range presents an ani- mated battle picture with its tacti- BULL'S-EYE ABANDONED cal surprises. Silhouettes represent advancing sections of infantry. The bull's-eye, except for pre-Other specially-designed targets on liminary instruction in aiming, has wheels, cable controlled, depict arm- now been abandoned for a progres-oured fighting and other vehieles ad- sive system of weapon-training to vancing head-on or obliquely against give the soldier a wider experience | the defenders,
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of near-war conditions, familiarise The phantom army is brought to him with the action and movement life by a system of levers and cables. of the various arms and generally The defenders receive valuable to instruct him in the best method training from the surprise move of engagement.
ments and the different type of Training includes not only steady targets to be engaged. and accurate fire, deliberate and The mark which the rifleman must rapid, at ranges to be judged, but hit in war is seldom seen clearly or minor tactical exercises. These in for long. Hence the need for steady turn include fieldcraft. Individual and accurate shooting, and snap initiative on the selection of targets shooting at targets which . appear and how best to deal with them is only at short and irregular, intervals. encouraged.
LANDING IN MINIATURE
In future the soldier is not to be merely a pumper.of lead. He must On appointed days a mobile army use common sense and act more on is represented in miniature as hav-his own initative.
EDEN: "UNITE TO RESIST"
"The events of the month, by
LOST SECRET PLAN OF
their stark and sudden tragedy, MUNITIONS WORKS
have imposed their lesson on all statesmen,” said Mr. Anthony Eden in a broadcast to Australia.
A man has been questioned, follow- "There is now universal agreeing investigations by Scotland Yard, ment on the peril confronting us Lancashire County Police and Gov- all, a péril ɓased on the tyrannical | ernment officials into the loss of a abuse of power in this smash-and-secret plan from the Government's grab new world.
£12,000,000 munition factory at Eux- "For some Powers force is the ton, near Chorley, Lance, three only determining factor of policy, weeks ago. and while such a state of mind
The plan was missed, from an exists no course is left to peace-office, and its disappearance was re- loving nations but to unite in regarded so seriously that officials of sistance to further aggression.”:
| M.I. 6 at Whitehall went to the munition factory to make inquiries. Scotland Yard officers took finger- prints of a number of people and in-
FAMOUS U.S. FLIER quiries were made in London, Man-
MARRIED
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chester, Chorley and Bolton,
· Evidence has now been lodged with the Public Prosecutions Department.
Mr. Clyde Pangborn, the Ameri-
The Chinese-American Institute cân airman who made the first non-
of Cultural Relations is organising stop flight across the Pacific, was
branch institute in Hong Kong. married recently at Southampton telegram from Dr. H. H. Kung, register officer to Miss Swana Beau- President of the Institute, has been caire Duval, a dress designer, received by Dr. C. T. Wang, Mr. daughter of the late M. Henr! Duval, Y. M. Chien, and Mr. P. K. Chu, ex- head of a Paris Insurance company.
Prof. E.
Schaefer, of Cunliffe-
ekrty approval, The in- will convene a meeting owen Aircraft Ltd., Southampton, the promoters next week.
for which Mr. Pangborn is carrying
out important test flights, was best
man. Mr. and Mrs. Pangborn will Christmas, 1987, when Mr. Pangborn make a honeymoon trip to South | went to the assistance of Mien America later in the year
who had got into difficulties while
The couple met at St. Moritz at aki-ing and landed in a snowdrift.