TRAINING FOR NEW ART OF WAR
1 _ PHYSICAL TRAINING AND GAMES. Mr. Perry Robinson, correspondent of "Tho Times" at British Headquarters, describes a new school in instruction at the front. Ostensibly it is for bayonet and musketry work, but really it is for teaching, the larger creed of physical and moral fitness, keenness, good fellowship, and cainaradcrc. Small time is given to drill, and smaller still to lectures, which are an entertaining, wholesome talk, lull of humour and anecdote. • Tho great thing is tho games. AH games teach a combination of seltrelianeo quickness of hand, foot, and oye. The games include fencing, uoxiug, basketball, football, and tug-of-war Tho instructors include world s champions. It is a delight to watch a hundred men in a great gymnasium, boxing and wresifling, and huudicds outside on a wind-swept lull engaged at other sports. Nowhere olse is there such a scene of riotous exuberant life and physical fitness. A three weeks'.course sends the men back bubbling with health and spirits, full of fine ideals and ready for good citizenship after the war.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 142, 5 March 1918, Page 4
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178TRAINING FOR NEW ART OF WAR Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 142, 5 March 1918, Page 4
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