THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 24, 1939
NO SNOB CLASS IN THE ARMY
The greatest break with tradition the Army has ever made was announ- ced recently.
What 'will matter is how he has donà his job while in the ranks, he a good mixer; can he talk with sergeant-majors yet not lose the com. Class distinction will cease to play mon touch? Can he obey orders in- any part in the choice of officers.telligently as well as give them? Has Every officer in future will be chosen he the initiative to act on his own if wholly on his merit as a soldier and a
left suddenly in sole command of his leader of men. Duke's son, cook's son section or platoon? will have to take exactly the same chance in the ranks.
Sandhurst and Woolwich will dis- appear as they were known to the country and will be used to train as officers men whose. ability has been revealed by service in the ranks.
The Army authorities have taken to heart one of the lessons of the last war, that a man could not be an active commander if he was above a certain age.
"Colonel Dugout" is not being re- called this time. As one highly- placed officer put it: "We want leaders who are active-minded. We аге
Those are the things a C.O. will want to know. He won't care if the man he has in mind was at Eton or Wapping-under-Strand elementary.
If any youngster has a desire for achievement, that inner grim deter- mination to rise to greater heights of responsibility, then to-day he has his chance as he never had it in the whole history of the British Army.
ACCIDENTS
determined' that our fighting troops IN THE
will be commanded by the young, and we mean to get the ages down and down. After all, in the last war some of our best battalion 'commanders youngsters of about twenty-
were four."
HAS HE INITIATIVE?
TYPHOON
SEVERAL ACCIDENTS, OCCUR- RING DURING THE GALE EXPER- IENCED YESTERDAY, WERE RE- PORTED. TO THE POLICE LAST NIGHT.
with a scalp
Cargo junk No. 2769, owned by Chan Sam, capsized off Mataukok Wharf at 12 noon. The crew were rescued. The loss was estimated to be $1,500.
A War Office statement says:— In the last war, commissions from At 3 p.m., a winch fell on Chan the ranks were given on a large scale Kwok, on board one of the warships from 1917 onwards. Commanding in harbour. He was admitted to the officers picked good men, sent them | Queen Mary Hospital home to be trained in cadet battalions. wound. But the "rookie" of 1914-15-16 en- tered the Army with very little hope of eventually commanding a platoon.
To-day all that is changed. What qualifications therefore will the commanding afficer of 1939 be Mr. V. H. W. Chittenden, of looking for in the man ha must even- | Harbour Department, reported tually select for commissions? The capsizing of Government Junk No. answer may be summed up in three 11, near the Yaumati Slipway. words-“Ability to lead.”
crew was rescued. Education--that is to say whether
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A matshed in Un Chau Street, man has a university degree or Shamshuipo, collapsed at 4.15 p.m. one failed to pass School Certificate-will | occupant was injured and admitted to not matter.
the Kowloon Hospital.
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