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THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 1938,

SPECIALISING YOUTH

There

Best Army for Britain- PLANES & TANKS the MASTER WEAPONS

By

|Major-General J. F. C. FULLER

C.B., C.B.E., D.S.O.

Chief General Staff Officer, Tank Corps 1916-18, and a leading authority on Modorn Stṛatogy,

AS

S the Army Estimates, which will be published to-day, are likely to total more than £100,000,- 000-roughly 150 per cent, above the figure at which they stood before we began to rearm-we may well ask the question: What is our Army for?

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In attempting to answer it, first we must get out of our heads the idea that it is an in-

surance against war; for that is the purpose of foreign policy.

A medium-weight tank with men of the 7th Bn. Tank Corps.

honourable and desirable

pro-

GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

Cor. 1818 by Called Fvaluer Bruthala, Tan

"Don't use your head this round-tava i all yer stregth for the

big finish."

THE BOMBS WILL

GET THERE FIRST

A. GOWER

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Yet the outlook of the average member of that council was, while illuminating, at the same time alarming.

to

The councillors seemed +think that the purchase of books

was more important than air tests raid precautions.

VERY day now

and demonstrations of

They allowed the Libraries

Instead, the aim of the Army fession. Its recruitment must ja ir

raid precautions Committee to overspend them- is to extinguish war in the be voluntary, because we have no schemes are being carried selves by £200, when from the shortest time and at the lowest need for an immense conscript out in England. The Home debate it appeared that the com- cost in lives, property and army, and we only want in it

mittee had done so in direct con- treasure when that foreign policy men to whom soldiering appeals. Secretary is to speed up travention of the original desire

these schemes.

ances.

a more-or-less new development.in nurseries, drop

Spurs Them On

are fow things upon which all persons will agree. The necessity of education is one of them. But latterly the realisation that perhaps modern education is not all that it should be, that it too frequently

breaks down and there is a war. Further, these men must be attempts to fit square pegs. for

of the council. The problem is, in fact, iden- offered true careers, something round holes and makes a botch tical with that of limiting con- worth working for; therefore, I from a study of the methods refused to allow the salary of the

I hope he will succeed, but

Yet these same councillors of it, has dawned upon a num-flagrations in our towns and suggest a total service of 30 which it is suggested should be air raid precautions officer to be ber of men and women who cities. In every municipality years in engagements of three employed I doubt it very much, advanced by a mere taking into make a study of these things. two things are required to pre- years at a time. That is to say, particularly so far as London consideration the Home Office It will readily be seen that as

vent fires--namely, a common a man enlists for three years, and the South are concerned. sense policy and anti-fire appli- after which he can re-engage for

grant-£80 per annum. They, mankind. progresses scientific-

The inhabitants of Northern in fact, after much haggling ally and aesthetically the need

another three years, and so on. and Midland towns have a far allowed him half the advance All the fire brigades in the From 21 years' service for specialisation arises if the country will not limit the out- wards he should be eligible for any South-country town, except precautions committee.

on- greater sense of civic duty than recommended by the air raid utmost in efficiency is to be breaks of fire unless the be- pension, and it should be a gener-possibly Portsmouth, appears achieved. In medicine, for in-haviour of the citizens is sanc. ous one.

able to engender.

The defeat of the recommen- stance, the idea of the clinic is If people leave boxes of matches The Territorials

dation at issue at the meeting was not what worried me: it was lighted

the attitude and opinions of the The greatest surgeon may be a place bottles of petrol on their

cigarettes on to their beds, and SECONDLY, the Army's poorest bacteriologist.

organisation must be It is kitchen ranges there will be un- of the simplest possible charac

To tell the people of speakers.

Coventry that the One rather ancient councillor MOUTRIE & CO., LTD. medical practitioner tagne to conflagpliances kept to to expand in war-time, because advance of them in air raid raid precautions would not be frequently argued that a general ending conflagrations irrespec- tor. Flexible, mobile; and easy citizens of Leicester are in said that he thought that air keep abreast of rosearch, would extinguish them.

our Empire is scattered and our precautions spurs on the former needed. have no opportunity to earn

With an army the situation is obligations are manifold.

town to outvic the latter.

A Socialist councillor went into living. Consequently there is similar. It is foreign policy Our Territorial Army should

Yet, one cannot visualise the comparisons between the respec- this trend of specialisation in

which limits war-that is, the become a true second line to our Borough of Hampstead vying tive education of an air raid pre- the profession. And so it is insane behaviour of the Govern- Regular Army, so that we may with the Borough of Southwark cautions officer and a chief many other walks of life, until rational foreign policy, all a.

ment. Therefore, granted a have one force and not two.

in the production of more librarian, much, I may say, to Service in the Regular Army even the lowly fourth estate has Government needs

efficient air raid precautions the detriment of the former. to do is to should be exchangeable; that is schemes. caught the idea, and the biggest turn to its military forces and to say, after a certain period of and most enterprising news decide

To begin with no Metropolitan Petty Politics on certain guiding service an infantryman shouldborough has been set a particu- papers, those which can best

characteristics.

become a tank-man, or a tank-larly good example by the parent ANOTHER councillor afford it, have their specialists True Careers

mann gunner, and so on; so that body-the London

said they were "going County too fast"!, An alderman com- for almost all departments. The

no soldier grows stale, and the Council. Yet London and its pared this particular borough idea behind this era of speciali-

older men can be fitted into jobs surrounding suburbs contain one with other London boroughs, and quarter of the entire population was also of the opinion that they, sation may be briefly explained

suitable to their age. like this: So great is the

of the country!

How many volume of general knowledge on

Metropolitan

The whole tone of the council boroughs have air raid any subject, from literature to

precautions officers engaged boroughs should travel by the appeared to be that Metropolitan engineering, from farming to

on whole time work? There slowest borough, rather than medicine, that young people

are but seven. who show an inclination for one thing or another are directed into specialised courses as soon as their groundwork makes it practicable.

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SUPPOSING that

represented the Goy ernment, then what would and should you do?

were "going too fast."

As regards the Army's forma- tions, the existing ones are too First of all, do not bother cumbersome; therefore the new about ends; instead, consider ones must be smaller and more means, for the grand end is war flexible. The whole should be (the city to be protected), and motorised and divided into self- not bits of war (the separate contained brigades of all arms, houses it contains)....

the divisions becoming their ad- membering that our Army is a corps were in the Great War.

Now, as to the means, and re- ministrative formation, as army British one it must fit British Quality First

THIRDLY, tactics, Tac- in the right direction in the es-

tical organisation and tablishment of the Junior

training must be built round Technical School and the Trade technical schools

what I will call the Army's mas- School for engineering, wireless taking there is one valuable and tory there have always been "black-out," Londen could not polities in its proceedings. under ter weapons. Throughout his and building industries, whose not entirely "allen" subject such weapons; for example the have an efficient display for at work was reviewed so interest-which should not be sacrifled long Macedonian pike,

study ingly Tuesday by Mr. G. White. language. In the first place if the English

the least nine months. of the English Roman short stabbing sword,

Hongkong has taken a step

conditions.

First, it must appeal to the young men of this country as an

the

nre

It is particularly gratifying that these young men are to earn Swedish field gun.

emulate the Northern and Mid- Have all the Metropolitan land towns in their attempts to

boroughs prepared even outvle each other. draft schemes? No! At least half of them have not during proceedings, tha council

Incidentally, I noticed that · done it!

advanced the maximum salary of any Metropolitan the cemetery superintendent by boroughs anything like a £100. trained complement of air raid wardens? The answer with a feeling of great despond- That council meeting filled me is-just none.

Have

ency. There seemed something While Leicester can have a so much of petty "parish pump"

long bow, the Alarming Outlook

I fear indeed that the Home Secretary will have to adopt a different scheme ff. London is to the industries which stand to their living in this Colony, even

-be made at all conscious of the benefit from the work of these small knowledge of English To-day our two master wea-

ATTENDED the full need for air raid precautions. council meeting, a very institutions should have given will be a tremendous advantage. pons are the aeroplane and the

I watched the aldermen and. such generous support to them And, if they are ambitious and tank with their counter-agents, short while ago, of a Metro- councillors as they left the town in the past. And it is fitting Propose to continue independent or shields, anti-aircraft and politans borough so that I might hall. They all seemed, with the find out the reactions of the exception of the chairman of the study or to attempt the highly anti-tank weapons. that Government money should technical accrets of their trade,

Then in a long-service army, (aldermen and councillors to the air raid precautions, committee, assist in the training of young they will find that the text that is a highly expert and truly fideas of the Home Office. so pleased with themselves. men who will eventually sorve'|bööks offering them the clearest professional army, an army of It was a borough from which I, personally, felt like the post: the public of this Colony at the road are not those in their na quality in contradistinction to one would have expected great Gray, gazing at the distant pro

tive tongue. It is just possible quantity (one fire brigade and enthusiasm and determination. spect of Eton College: samo time they serve them that out of the trade schools of not a thousand hand buckets), From the agenda that I obtained, this Colony may come future its men will be able to fight in it appeared that the air raid pre- teachers of thousands of machines and without machines, cautions scheme was, through Chinese. In the interoits of and we shall have not only a the apposite: committee and everyone concerted the desir, highly mechanised army, but a jofiteers, proceeding on good lines ability of the English influence superb light Infantry force as and who in advance of most. lanthus appar

London boroughs.

selves.

But there is one point upon which the authorities might do well to exercise the atmost cati tion. Even in this specialisa tion which the boys of the

Alas! regardless of their doom The little victime play!·

No senie have the; of ills to come,

No care brighd fesday, N.B.I was born and brod In London.