UNIVERSAL MILITARY TRAINING.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 529, 9 June 1909, Page 4

UNIVERSAL MILITARY TRAINING.

'„ hi ? - ree •XN'tol. anything-which is UL2 ! umwr "} a PP'w»tion S> not exOthers than experts taay bo permitted to think. lam Z •nilitary expert but thinking on iho Ste if universal military training for the Dominon loads mo to ask, What good is it going to oo when tho contmuoua enomons cost ol it .11 .money, loss of time from othor Pursuits «ld some other thing* hare been LlnT'' 1. No enemy would think of landing troops ; m if it had not a sufficient^ IV?J?\ lUp1 UpP ° rt rctroat ' in th ° f °ra of ivarshms lying out. in our coastal waters. J..it it had.this,, with no sufficient son force to meet it.it would have the means of Jostroymg, .one by one, our coastal cities and terM OUr Wcdth h con «ntratod. ««2 w mau until wo «M Haiti and asked - for ■ terms, and would certainly adopt tho method faced with the least reuitanw,: With tho effectiveness of modern guns -firing from many miles out at sea at a largo anl stable target like a citv, <rw ea f y ' 1D s P ito of our feeble forts,, foolish y it seems to me, placed on conspicuous httlo coastal knolls, with tho disadvantage of the enemy's warships boinc moving targets, out of range when not in JK^'J,„T bly **«. •*<».■■ by reason.of powerful warships being the more ,We are fairly inoculated with tho mflitwT Virus just now. but it may bo as well to try to retain our sanity.—l am, etc., June 7. ■ ■CONVINCED.