SIR IAN HAMILTON

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2136, 30 April 1914, Page 8

SIR IAN HAMILTON

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■■'Oh Tdftßraph.-l'rcse Association.) ';.■■■ ■■'■ ■'■ ' Duncdln, April -9. ,' I,;, Tb.e s<i|; tactical exercise winch lorms the climax or the military manoeuvres (.Ins j-car took phiix- Hii>, morning on ait area east 'il tiw Tnieii Miver ami under ih(! scrutiny of l/eiicrai Sir lan Jinmiltoii.

The, Kuiisral idea wilts that WmU;.;M. of whom troops in camp were part, was (it war with teistlund, and the lormer's lioops were advancing through the hilly country south of Mkldleniarcii to attack th(! whole; of the Wastlaiui positiojs. The Olago force, formed Iho leii, column of tlm Wcstlaml Army and on tlm afternoon of.Apiil '& the Kasthind force was lucatc-ti oiitreiiehiuj; i> position a quarter of .1 mile west ol Mount: Moss.

.. V Tho Night March. Ivarly this morning. Colonel Hadcliop, commanding the (Hugo I'orcu, made a ni»ht niaicii tnulei' eovoi , ot his ositposls, and, at daylight, the Otng«i force less, the inouiitcd n'Hes brigade wvta deployed on the left hand*of Uui Taieri Kiver leady to odt-anci;. Tho Jlnunled Hides .Brigade, who hivquackod Tor tho night north-east of Midcjieniarcli, , wore under orders to move down tlm loft hand of the river, and co-operate with tho remainder of the force by inoviiil? against the enemy's right ' flunk. Tho chief umpire was Colonel A. \V. Epbin, CM., C.MXi. The senior whpires_for the invaders and invaded respectively were:—lnvaders: I/ieiitotinntColoDel G. N. Johnson, Invaded: Lten-tEiiant-Cotonel Hon. R. H. Collins,

Manoeuvre Gulrrtlnate§> Fully 700 spectators went from Bmiedin and about 300 from JJiddlemarch were present to u-itness tile tactical evWfise. The attack was developed by' tlio infantry about 11 a.m. It was ;i frontal "pinning down" attack ami v.hon. by alternate nislios muter cow-r----ing fire, the infantry hnd worked to within 300 yards of ihe trenches, theenemy's inntmted brigade appeared on the right flank, and the day a-as won amid great ehcprinjj. General Hamilton was very ro»r;r.itnlatorv in his remarks to the' officers after the manoeuvres. After luncii there wo? r> march past, and before tlio Gonernl loft,-a narty. of tcrntorißls danced a buti which "rentlv amused him. General Hamilton rpItirnerl to {own this eveninor pud ivaaccord*! a civic reception.' He wiil leave for Qamaru to-rcorrow.