AN ARMY CRITIC.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 954, 22 October 1910, Page 5

AN ARMY CRITIC.

LIEUT. SUTOR RESIGNS. By Telegraph—Press Aseooiatdon-Copyright. London, October 20. Lieutenant Allan Sutor, of tho Royal Artillery, who was recently cQtirt-mar-tialled for publishing a pamphlet criticising what ho alleged to bo irregularities in tho Army, has resigned his commission. Ho intends resuming his criticisms. "THE SURVIVAL OP THE UNFIT." ' Lieutenant Sutor has published a pamphlet entitled, "The Army System ; or, Why Muddle Through Thirty Millions a Tear During Peace?" The pamphlet amount,'? in effect to a oharge that tho Army, is pervaded by a fussy-futility which results in a vast waste of energy, and makes for the reverse of efficiency. "In tho Army," he writes, "the aim is uniformity. It may be uniformity of mediocrity; it may even be uniformity of imbecility—it must be uniformity." Later he states, "The Army system does nothing to discover good. Generals—it does everything to preserve bad ones.' It means the survival of the unfit." ■ On the general system he says:—"The system of training adopted in the Army is the public school system. Ttiat is to eay, there is no training. Even telephones refuse to work if they are military. When the instrument does work, it only means that the'wrong messages get through, Instruments are ..then cursed,. ■ men are damned, but the instruments are not put right, nor are the telephonists. trained." . : Charges of this kind, with mention of fort's' gnns alleged to bo. in places where they are useless, suggestions of irregularities in the method of obtaining signalling certificates," and. other such matters are numerous in'the'39 pages of the pamphlet,: which has sold very largely in the north, :; Lieutenant Sutor hasTjeen ten years in the Army, has taken his M.A. at Aberdeen, and studied for the Scottish Bar, and js said to have an idea of entering the Church or journalism should he leave the. Army. ;