. Kitchener's army and the territorial forces, the full story of a great achievement ;. as I have alreadysketched. I saw the menas they became more andmore advanced, drilling inevery department of were the men insquad and company drill,the men of the machine-gunsection, the field engineers, the artillerymen,the cavalry, the motor-cycle corps, the scouts,the signallers, squads at bayonet practice,musketry training, the transport corps, andwhole armies route marching or at man-oeuvres, skirmishing, taking ambush, charg-ing up steep slopes and hills, entrenching,erecting barbed wire de
. Kitchener's army and the territorial forces, the full story of a great achievement ;. as I have alreadysketched. I saw the menas they became more andmore advanced, drilling inevery department of were the men insquad and company drill,the men of the machine-gunsection, the field engineers, the artillerymen,the cavalry, the motor-cycle corps, the scouts,the signallers, squads at bayonet practice,musketry training, the transport corps, andwhole armies route marching or at man-oeuvres, skirmishing, taking ambush, charg-ing up steep slopes and hills, entrenching,erecting barbed wire defences, and practis-ing every conceivable movement they wouldhave to undertake when the time came inreal and deadly earnest to fight in the causeof right and freedom. Here is what Rud-yardlvipling wrote of it all; and I endorsewhat his virile pen has written. One couldsee how splendidly the men had come on,he said, in a few weeks. It was a resultthe meekest might have been proud of, butthe New Army does not cultivate uselessemotions. Their officers and their instruc- Kitcheners Army. LEARNING 1 HE AKl OE 1KENCU-UIGGING.—A SQUAD OF a COMPA
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