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The Sergeant was questioning a peppery Irishman, and, being unable to get any satisfaction out of him, told him to "Stand down."

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ATISHOO! Autumn, season of and chemista.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1982.

British

челнот

Army's Old Fetters Scrapped

More Initiative. And Less Tradition

INTELLIGENCE COUNTS

(By Captain Liddell Hart.)

NOW

With the end of the training blending them with the negative comes the time for re-lessons that were so liberally ad- flection. In the sphere of actual ministered in the World War: training the season of 1932 has The compound, as poured out in been the most encouraging since the many mobile and guerilla, ezer- the war.

leises that we have tested this year,

The art of command, as con-is both older and newer than its In- trasted with the cog-like func-gredients. It has the flavour of our ing cultivated anew. And, bet-while it is coloured by post-1918 tioning of trench-warfare, is be-feats under. Moore and Wellington, ter still, in the spirit of the best equipment. It may still be weak British tradition.

beer, but it is better than the muddy

The

French green shoots are emer-water of 1914-1918. And the more ging through the rubble of the we go on brewing, the better will be past half century, through the the beer. and dust and ashes of that Continen-

Crafty Enemies. your tal doctrine of mass which grew

Such exercises pit mind' against out of the fallacious experience mind. They compel not only com of the 1870 war, and grew ever manders, but sub-unit leaders, and more rampant and rank until it even individual men to develop their broke under its own weight in intelligence and initiative. 1914-1918, almost burying cur soldier who is fitted to contend civilisation in its collapse.

against the wiles of the crafty Long shackled by this cumbrous irregular, whose life depends on his doctrine, whose fetters were riveted cunning, will be mentally equipped on them by the hierarchical passion to cope with the far more straight uniformity of thought and forward problems involved in meet- standardisation of mind, there is a ing a civilised army of conventional growing effort among our leaders to pattern and method. break these fetters.

For this tactical renaissance Anyone who has had the oppor-credit is due to the General Staff, tunity to study the diaries and who gave the opening by making mists-memoranda of some of our chief "colonial" expeditions as the new

commanders in the last war may orientation of our training; to the,' have observed: the evident, strugglo commands which developed the op- that went on between their instine-portunity; and to the divisional and tive commonsense, a racial inherit-brigade commanders who in varying jance, and the pedantle code of so-degree took advantage of this op

called principles that they had learnt portunity to carry out resourceful from pre-war Staff College lectures and ruseful exercises. and text-bocks.

What further can be done to In the light of our present. full fertilise the growth of surprise and knowledge of the war, one can note mobility in the field of training? that whenever such a commander trissted, to his own commensense he

Facts You Did Not Know.

The China Mail cally stopped. It is the perver- sity of mankind, who cannot be won by loud advertisement but who hurry forward they are assured of a pig in a poke There was the glorious uncertainty of perhaps hooking something well-bound and read- It is a natural weakness of able, and the agreeable sense authors to like to be read, and that the responsibility for what

A silk conditioning and teating they have sedulously spread the to read had at last been taken plant has been opened at Zurich, view that illiteracy is somehow away.. Many people would read Switzerland, that is said to be disgraceful in itself. But the if they were not ignorant of equipped for the most efficient oper- precaution of teaching children what books there are and disin-ation of any in the world. everywhere to read is not suf-clined to ask. from a dislike of ficient, for authors, being a vain being improved by other people. Either hard or soft faces can be usually did the right thing, while if tribe, want dozens and hundreds. They doubt the enthusiasms. of used with a new hammer the head he checked himself and recalled the and even thousands of readers publishers and reviewers, and of which is split, the halves being code he too often fell into the errors aplece, and do not like the feel much more comfortable if fastened together with screws to which produced auch un-British readers, who, from an excessive their reading is left to the hold interchangeable faces. desire to please, rush from book chance niovements of a fish-

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human game-drives as the Somme and Passchendaele.

First, undoubtedly, the provi sion of suitable equipment, a sub- feet that I reserve for a further article.

Secondly, care to ensure that scope for these elements is pro vided in all schemes:

Alternative Plans.

And it is also to be seen that the commandera least wedded to more we lack an adequate supply of "tin-openers" artillery Continental pedantry were those and tanke-the more essential it is who were in the closest touch with to develop the alternative and less troops who knew them as men, tangible means through which alone not merely as pieces on the mill there is any remaining chance of tary chessboard:

success in operations.

Foreign Models.

In this connection it is especially

to book, skimming, failing to ap-hook than to the earnest bene- preciate the finer points of con-volence of professional choos- struction, and totally forgetting ers. It would be a simple matter years ago the party the whole experience in a very to establish a tradition of bind-Labour and the Nation" as a few days. The position has a ing all books with a loop so that comprehensive survey of the serious side. Only from con- they could be fished for, and for whole of the problems which tented authors will there flow a booksellers to enliven

it had undertaken their

"to solve. contented literature, and Ru-shops by a pond in the middle Now the survey is to ba thora, as they increase in num-with some prizes and much of made all over again, and to The code which misled the more important that those who set ber, become harder, to content. varied interest. The 2d. or 6d. be combined with specific remote directors of the campaign schémes should provide the com- To fewer and fewer of them, re-box of the second-hand dealer is proposals such as those contain-was essentially a superficial imita-manders with a choice of alternative latively speaking, does there always a popular part of his ed in the four reports on cur- tion of the narrow dogmas that had objectives through which to attain come the mellowing optimism, shop, not only for its cheapness rency, banking and finance, on enclosed the mass-production armies their object. For in this power of the impossibility of thinking but for its suggestion of pot agriculture, on transport and on of the Continent. And the copy variability Iles the best chance of overbadly of mankind which fol- luck, andige booksellers take electricity supply, which are to itself was made during the late Vic deceiving and surprising an oppon- lowa so naturally from being in care that bargains shall be be regarded as samples of the worn era, when, instead of seeking ent great demand.

But &

most found there. Not the least of reat that are to come. "This is our own models, we were following In actual war a commander, if he hopeful development can now be the merits of a book pond is but a beginning" the committee foreign ones, imitating even their is wise, will take a line which reported from a small town on that no one need ever again be says.

The long catalogue of headdresses-apparently in the hope threatens, and offers to himself,

war It is the responsibility of those

the Riviera, Sestri-Levante, ashamed of any book; many subjects-Industrial,” financial, that it would improve what these alternative objectives. In mimle whose name is to be murmured books go unbought because peo-economic, political, national, Im-covered! gratefully wherever publishers ple do not care about having to perial, and international-which In the last few years there has who set the schema to provide them and authors and booksellers, in justify their choice at home, and are to be investigated provide been a re-growth of national indivi-Significantly, the schemes this year their respective coteries, hobnob shrink equally from the elabora- the committee with abundant duality in the military field, fertilis which have been the most fruitful together. For at this town they tion and risks of concealed read-excuses for failure to present a ed by the revelations and analyses in lessons, results and generalship have managed to connect reading. To read a book, to pour complete programme for the contained in the histories of the have been the scheme where alter- ing with the major passions for something Inside yourself, is an first annual conference since the war. These have produced a natives existedi. gambling and for exercise, and intimate personal activity; bat General Election. Perhaps the healthy doubt of the soundness of have linked up the book busi-people who would never intrude completed plan for transforming our recent models, an urge to redis- ness with sport. Taking all with a blunt demand to know a the whole world will be ready a cover the secrets of our own success their unsold volumes and it is man's thoughts have no such de- year or two hence; for the paper in past centuries and to adapt what VETERAN OF POLICE unsold and unreturnable licacy about scanning the title of reforms of Socialism are produc- we discover to modern conditions. volumes, and the having to live the book in his hand. Now, ed with remarkable facility, as But it has been left to 1952 to: with them, that breaks the however carefully the book has indeed they must be if they are yield a real crop, and to see the spirit of booksellers and makes been selected from a catalogue to be ready for revision again in promise of harvest. In this year's them feel that a third of the or shelf, it will be the easiest another four years time. Mean exercises one often found command- price is no more than their fair thing for the veriest tiro in while the party in Parliament ere thinking for themselves instead share in the book business the nonchalance to say that he is will continue to occupy the com. of trying to remember what the Sestri-Levante booksellers, and but examining the catch he fortable seats of censure from text books any. Applying by the those publishers and authors made with his rod, and what which, as also in the report to light of their own commonsense the who, with unusual imagination queer things come up on the end the conference, they make a elements of surprise and mobility, or in unusual despair, joined of a hook.

mock thunder of denunciation instead of losing themselves in try of the Government. But there ing to repeat mechanically the The death occurred at the fishing pond, filled it with every A Revision Of Socialism. mentary Labour Party "an una leaf from anything foreign it was night of Mr. Harry Coombs, who is in the report of the Parlia formalas of the book. If they took Matilda Hospital on Thursday expected tribute to the from such opponents as have taught was for many years, in the service

with them, constructed a vast

sort of book, and then invited | the public to come and for a

FORCE PASSES.

Mr. Harry Coombs Laid To Rest.

MANY PAY RESPECTS.

small fee to fish. All the In the report which the execu-efficiency of the House of Com- us a painful lesson in how superior of the Hong Kong Government. memories of magnetic fishpond tive committee of the Labour mons as an expression of the numbers can be offset by superior The fanera: took place yesterday which lurk in outwardly prosaic Party presented to the confer-will of the people, "We think it individual skill. * Verona jevening in the old residents', see- heads were roused, and men who ence there were signs that the is worth while recording the fact. It was by taking a lesson from tion of the Protestant Cemetery would never dream of entering a leaders of the party are recon-that the present House of Com the American backwoodsmen in the at Happy Valley. The burial ser- bookshop and browsing and buy-elled to a long period of Opposi-mons has proved itself, a very War of Independence that vice was read by the Dean, the ing gladly paid for a rod and, a tion in which they may re- good machine for carrying out we created the Light Divi- Very Rev. A Swann. sporting chance of hooking they cuperate andre assort their the will of the nation once that sion, and that division, was Those present at the graveside knew not what. The pond was ideas They have found a con- will has been expressed at the the seed of our harvest in the included Chief Police, Inspector P.. an en bus success, and when nial pastime for the period of poll at least once- a majority Peninsular Wa every

and is elected to support certain the mechanical, masa thod of CT Frith, Mesara. T. Hynes were still

men So Mr. La oury and rope, we invited the troubles that p. 1 Holdman, W Wotherspom, frequently his colleagues.

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