. Kitchener's army and the territorial forces, the full story of a great achievement ;. vel from one race-course to another to deal with the immenseamount of telegraphic correspondence whicharises out of betting, &c. These comprisesome of the most expert workers in theservice—men who can handle hundreds ofthousands of messages in the shortest time. he could say with truth that he was quali-fied to describe himself as a competentengineer. There was no limit to the length of atelephone or telegraph wire which theRoyal Engineer could lay at a gallop. Thewire was carried in big reels and was paido
. Kitchener's army and the territorial forces, the full story of a great achievement ;. vel from one race-course to another to deal with the immenseamount of telegraphic correspondence whicharises out of betting, &c. These comprisesome of the most expert workers in theservice—men who can handle hundreds ofthousands of messages in the shortest time. he could say with truth that he was quali-fied to describe himself as a competentengineer. There was no limit to the length of atelephone or telegraph wire which theRoyal Engineer could lay at a gallop. Thewire was carried in big reels and was paidout as the wagon went forward at fullgallop. Caught up by the horsemen, andthrown clear of the road, it was fixed withextraordinary rapidity by the men who fol-lowed behind, to tree, post, and fence—whichever offered the best advantage. Itis seldom necessary to lay more than tenmiles of new line in one day, for armies donot progress at any very rapid rate, andtemporary air lines are only necessaryto connect the shifting headquarters of thevarious staffs. All the time thev are. I MEN OF THE CYCLIST CORPS AT EPSOM PARADING AFTER A HEAVY FALL OF SNOW. Though they were not enlisted forKitcheners Army, and, indeed, came intothe strength of the Army department inquite an unusual way, they were valuableadditions to the new strength of the RoyalEngineers. The men who could lay telegraph linesat full gallop across a country were neces-sarily trained in the service, but engineerofficers were agreeably surprised to findthat, even in this expert work, their new-men were able to make almost as good ashowing as the more experienced membersof the corps. This was part of the trainingof the Royal Engineer recruit. He concen-trated till he became a specialist in his job ;he learnt to work swiftly but thoroughly;and there came a time in his training when operating, other branches of the Royal En-gineers are repairing the main lines whichare usually operated in time of peace, andcan be easily p
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