CORRESPONDENTS' VIEWS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 224, 20 September 1940, Page 6

CORRESPONDENTS' VIEWS.

WHY A VETERAN? ■ • (To the Editor.) Sir AadreW Rueeell has been ippoataft Inepector-General of the XVw ZealaiJ Military Forces. As one who h«a tfc» 1 iitmoet respect for this veteran of tfc Great War, I do not wish to bt ek/ understood. There is nothin? peraonal in what I am about to sa r. = However it k difficult to find one sound rrtaom for thie appointment. Sir Andrew, vk» hae eerved hie King and country noblr and well, ie 72 years of a«e. *He w 'eeen absolutely nothing of modern warfare. Modern tank-. dive-homixM Bren guns, 1940 quick-firing meek! anised un;t«—ail these must necessarily be an unknown factor to him, apart from tlie modicum of theory which eaa? be picked «p by reading text-lboola. ft ie not Sir Andrew Rueeell'e fault tfcaf he is unfamiliar with these new aal effective machines of war. wita I all respect to him, why should the Gor- : ernment make thie appointment? A** we to be told that there is not, in §|| r England, a brigadier or a colonel, wh» hae actual experience of Nazi method** Iβ there not some officer who v M through the hell of France in the Dunkirk evacuation whose experience wonlg 1 be of real value in forjring New Zt& land'e 1940 war machine? PUZZLED, v