PRAYERS FOE SUCCESS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2155, 22 May 1914, Page 7

PRAYERS FOE SUCCESS

OF AUSTRALIA'S MILITARY EXPERIMENT SIE lAN HAMILTON ON ITS SIGNIFICANCE CANARDS OP "INTERESTED FANATICS" By Telcgra-Dh—P.ress Association—Ooflyrie'nl Sydney, May 21. Sir lan Hamilton, -dealing with the subject of compulsory training, says;— "It is no lis® pretending that- Cadet training has already justified itself sis a full substitute for prolonged adult (recruit training. Insufficient allowances are made by critics for the difficulties inevitable from this inauguration of All original .scheme, but. the dioicultics will riot less each year." Ho adds: "If the Empire understood tho full significance of the Avistraliwn experiment, prayers, would lie contint!ally offered for its succ&ss; Itut sinco most people in the Northern Hemisphere have been carefully misinformed by interested fanatics, Australians will Uavo to trust to their own good s<y»se to ynill the. business through. With courage and perseverance, they may yet be able to boast, that tney shotted tli.o way to tho groat, military Powers to raise powerful armies irith a minimum tax on the priceless time of tlifc adultmale worker. "Tho Australian soldier Is very anionable to discipline. Hie best assets of an army _ to-day arft soldier-Irk® spirit and int.c!li(jenoo and wiry frames of tho rank and file." Sir Inn Hamilton strongly advocates tho formation and development of military aviation, and suggesk a pensioft sclwme for the permanent for®GS» i