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A RESULT OF THE GREAT WAR.

[BY S1 KEHT RESHELL.] One need be no more than a very casianí observer of military affairs to be struck by the great stress which is being nowadays laid upon the education of the soldier. General education, technical lucation, inach is offered the warning of a trade-so tes, expected from the soldier, that there is some danger of the Army coming to be regarded as too stiff A calling altogether by the

of mind to Byrrage type of which the profession of arhis apprate

Now it is no mere piulitinte lo ay that shows isaintaently wis Indeed, it

ass milation of out of the

"Pelessons” (I hate the word, but it;

great

do apply legitimately in this case) of the war. It is an appreciation of the lve the

"Armies When I first went to ara war correspondent in 1913 the tradition still lived that it took two years some aid the short of gunner, make a gun We wrzerribly

WIS

War,

them, d

well as short of my thos we

Bad

to tise. U regular soldiers shook their head in gengine penism this was. going to be our great problem.

Well, by the time the Somine offensive launched the problem was revolving it self. We had plenty of gunners, and they made very effective shooting. The old regular soldiers, who, be it understood, were not air in pathetic, because their one WA to win the

said. Yes! This is all very well: The now ginners are certainly shaping better than we expected. But then they are sloting at fixal targets all the time. It is static fighting, and all the artillery have to do is to get the range and keep it. Wait until we come to a war about hither and &f movement, when batteries are.

dashing

abruptly, unlimbering, on to the mark smartly, and do work. Then we shall sea

thither halting Ketting ing *Wemme this, too, in due course, and it is true to say that n very large propor tion of the gunters who took part in the great" backwards xirive which began on August 8th, 1915, and steadily broadened in into.amal war of movement, had been training but a few months What our artillery did in those days is a matter of history. I will not say that finer shooting was never made. That would be ridicul ous. But it was shooting which the va rmy could not stand against, and that was all that really mattered.

It

SIMPLY INTELLA CENCE.

The moral was too obvious to be side- tracked, and the old regular sokliers ad- mitted it with characteristic frankness. the higher standard of intelligence. mainly the result of bester, rducation, which enabled the New Armes to turn out gunners at a rate which shattered all the

raditions of the shop."

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as imply Let me get be misunderstood ne ing any disrespect to the old Royal Regi ment of Artillery. The men krew their business in superlative degree. But they of the magnificent heroist shown at the were a long time a mastering it. They second Battle of Ypres in saying this same, as the old song puts it, from the city and the plough with a most elemen- tary suattering of definite kunwledge or scientific comprehension, In short, as a rule, they had everything to learn, and gamery means a pretty big fill in this

way

It is self-evident truth: Gas, in its military us, was a very different affair nine years hgo from what it is to-day. You may put storm troops, iron divisions, or anything you like in the way of the finest human material, opposite to a Duny

Toe wito is equipped with the means merely give this as an example, be suffocating or paralysing or blinding cause it serves effvetively to illustrate the them and what becomes of their indomit general conditions which the War Officeable qualities?

have o

wisely taken to heart Modern In the spacious days, when men fought war is essentially, a business of science men with steel and fire, the human ele

it Incidentally

also a business which ment won, always presupposing reason. makra icfinitely. heavier demands uponable skilt in dirreting it. La this age, the

quality of courage

the

connee

And so the training of the soldier has Become a business of the mind very much more t than of the body. The standard of- intelligence I use the word in the sense.

in which it is capable of

of being leveloped

ever before men who know the most take the hell with In the days of Waterlog it was not the an unense initial advantage, because affair of the soldier, to think for himself there so very much to know in He was a very uvchanical part of a tion with the art of war. Very simple machine Field warfare in close formation, and with what we..now regard as

as very primitive weapons, made slender call upon individuel initiative One of the great features of Waterloo was the feat of Shaw, the Life Guard man, in cutting down I forget how many Frenchmen, with his sabre. Sheer pluck and brawn, but demanding about as much intelligence as a bull manifests when it tours a humpkin over a hedge,

Amongst the officer clay the Army bus

been

the jokingly referred to as ***gallant

The learned profession." And quip was bora of the increasing sever ty of the Sandhurst and Woolwich examin ations. In every age there has been a farge, school of officers which has taken its professor very seriously. There has likewise been a large.

chool which has not,

long

The latter represents a vanishing, if not An already vanished, class War has to. then taken - very seriously nowadays. The

laboratories have

ave effectually killed the old days of mere

And so the

of to-day find him-

self confronted with an interminable vistn of study if he hopes to get on în bis pro-: 'fession. form which applies eat on

It may be pointed out that this to all ages, in degrees But it is the

gave which makes such a

difference The

day was a man was excelled

of

de

but intellect. Ho bough cimumission

into a calling of luxury was precious He did his duty magnificently, but little to accomplish in the way of scien cific proficiency for that duty.y PAPUA NEW TYRE.

Tommy Atkins has vanished. Tas scirriquce as if fits, the typical man of the present-day. A my nath term Bow stres Alumner "'- fits the London policeatun. The bulk of our recruits are drawn from the same class which have a yielded us soldiers. But changed

lone have

radical inftence on results. A recruit may arrive at his depôt recording office an illiterate, mart By the time he enreg is a trained. woldier he has become a type very different from the old **

***grave crusher. The change is the result of what the French defiue as nutres teups, autres moeurs.

The next war, like the last war, is going to be won by intelligence applied to the fullest knowledge of all the methods of destruction which cienco is so braeficently desising. The qualities,

TROS!! the rac will, of course, always remain our prim- asset. But science is centelisely mov- ing in the direction .of subordinating the personal element to mechanical or chemi- cal conditions. Gas, for instance, does not give much scope for the dominance of mero courage. I am not mindful (Continued on utzt column.)

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by education-i progresing in the Army in a degree which we can only realize by harking back, let us say, to the time of the Boer War. It will always remain true that a Napoleon will be born and not male. But then, has present-day

warfare any room for a Napoleon?

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