SECRET RIFLE DRILL
SCHOOLBOYS IN BAVARIA GEM MAN MILITARY IDEAS. , LONDON, June 2. Secret musketry drill and rifle practice for pupils of secondary schools in Munich provides striking evidence of the ever-increasing importance which the new German educational system attaches to military training, reports the Berlin correspondent of ‘ The Times.’ The course is compulsory for all'boy* between the ages of sixteen and nineteen. who must devote two hours a fortnight thereto. The boys are assembled in fifties in the large State Institute, where firearms are served out, half being supplied with regular, army rifles, and the rest with small-calibre rifles, but they take turn and torn about with each type of weapon. The instructors "lire officers in mufti.The greatest care is taken to beep the proceedings secret. The boys are strictly . forbidden to take a rifle out of the building, or show themselves armed at a door or window.
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Evening Star, Issue 21749, 18 June 1934, Page 7
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149SECRET RIFLE DRILL Evening Star, Issue 21749, 18 June 1934, Page 7
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