. Kitchener's army and the territorial forces, the full story of a great achievement ;. UCIIES, WUICU, SriRITEDLV CONTESTED, ARE GREATLY ENJOYED BOTH BY COMBATANTS AND SPECTATORS. did, their faculties of observation, reason-ing, and intelligence. They could appre-ciate also the reason for things; indeed,the work fascinated the best type of were so many undreamed-of thingsthat riveted their attention; they had touse their wits. L enabled us with a verv small force to holdback larger bodies of the enemy in the earlydavs of the war. The German oftrcer who wrote, TheBritish make extraord
. Kitchener's army and the territorial forces, the full story of a great achievement ;. UCIIES, WUICU, SriRITEDLV CONTESTED, ARE GREATLY ENJOYED BOTH BY COMBATANTS AND SPECTATORS. did, their faculties of observation, reason-ing, and intelligence. They could appre-ciate also the reason for things; indeed,the work fascinated the best type of were so many undreamed-of thingsthat riveted their attention; they had touse their wits. L enabled us with a verv small force to holdback larger bodies of the enemy in the earlydavs of the war. The German oftrcer who wrote, TheBritish make extraordinary use of theground, stumbled on a truth. Our troopsare able, by availing themseh-es of every Kitchener s A rmy. piece of cover, to hide themselves from theirenemy and to shield themselves from hisrifle attack. On the Sussex Downs, on Yorkshiremoors, on the heaths and hills of Surrey,in the meadows and woodlands of A PATROL Ol c\i IK SCOUTS LYING IN AMBUSH UNDE Essex, the men learned their lesson, halt-ingly at first, but later with surprising alert-ness. The new recruit, whose idea of cover was of the vaguest kind, who perhaps .had visions of battlemented walls and soundconcrete defences, was to learn that a hum- Kitchener s A rmy 83
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