. Kitchener's army and the territorial forces, the full story of a great achievement ;. ion, and in the mean-time the Manchester Regiment and a com-pany of the 4th Suffolks delivered a furiouscounter-attack in face of outnumbering odds,and, in spite of the fact that they were metby a most terrible concentration of rifle andmachine-gun fire, they seized one end ofthe village and held their position until therelieving corps came up to complete theGerman discomfiture. It is in reason that there should be aninequality of efficiency in regiments whichhave only one opportunity in the course ofa year
. Kitchener's army and the territorial forces, the full story of a great achievement ;. ion, and in the mean-time the Manchester Regiment and a com-pany of the 4th Suffolks delivered a furiouscounter-attack in face of outnumbering odds,and, in spite of the fact that they were metby a most terrible concentration of rifle andmachine-gun fire, they seized one end ofthe village and held their position until therelieving corps came up to complete theGerman discomfiture. It is in reason that there should be aninequality of efficiency in regiments whichhave only one opportunity in the course ofa year to exercise together. Much dependsupon opportunities for meeting, uponwhether the corps has already acquiredsome traditions, and generally upon its com-position. Some regiments are especiallyfavoured in that all tlie companies are drawnfrom a restricted area. In other cases thereare company headquarters at towns wideapart, and, save at the annual training, menhave no opportunity of meeting and har-monising one with the other. It is because such regiments as the Kitchener s Anny ^Th. DON SCOTTISH IN TRAINING. London Scottish are recruited in one city,and the members of the corps meet g;eneraliyonce a week, that tiie regiment has ahvavsbeen a coherent force. Corps which con-sisted of scattered units suffered in conse-quence ; but the war brought them alltogether, and such of those as were regarded by the War Oflice as likely and suitablemen for active service were put to the realhard work of training which distinguishedKitcheners Army in its preliminary active service Territorials—that is tosay, the men who were ear-marked forwork in France—had the advantage of the
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