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FAR-FLUNG LINES

TRAINING OF MOBILE FORCES. Troops in training 'at Featherstoit' pX scattered widely over the South Wairarapa during the past week in pursuance of their syllabus ol training The Mounted Rifles spent ko dais and a night in the country be-, vend Jlartinborough, bivouacking in the. onen 4n A.S.C. train accompanied then ° a P ud performed supply and transport: ties in the same manner as is done, at the front, from railhead to. troops. These two branches of the. service now ne form much of their training together,. SKe -A.S.C. bas been .given much more horse and wagon training in the. field of late than was tamerlythc c*e. $T aree-warters on f ; by the wagon in two h our^ n a * otlier I C - amP fi ™ t nines and a h«« in length, line, five miles ami * b si . »nder these condition, , its *cUit starting being --jm- - A ' f h ones Kro . come depleted of W in'n HHe over Iwo hours. Then, the * I rf k n T ,?W was slower work, but everyt^ing a was X-d to store in camp %r e Trb F riery are away from camp almost every day, and the mounteds aways go out for the day,.carrying: midi J monls for man and horse, the re™lt of all thto scattering of forces is . to oive the main camp a deserted appearance during the day, for the info* trTmarch out at morning and mid-day to their training grounds. Next week the artillery and the me-chine-gun specialists will have a. fiehi. day and battle practice, when the signaller's will maintain communication with the camp. The mounteds and A.S.C. will go off on a three-days' march, which will cover ground between MartinborouEh and tho coast.

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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3155, 6 August 1917, Page 6

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288

FAR-FLUNG LINES Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3155, 6 August 1917, Page 6

FAR-FLUNG LINES Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3155, 6 August 1917, Page 6

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