Volunteer Items.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 247, 23 February 1894, Page 2

Volunteer Items.

I • The Manchester Rifles paraded for inspection last evening in Kimbolton road. There was a very good muster, In the absence of Leut, Col, Newall, Capt. Kirton made the usual inspection. The company was then exercised in company movements, new drill, by Capt. Kirton, Lieuts. Bray and Burlace. Sergt.- Petherick acted as Color-Sergeant in the absence of Color-Sergt Milson, on sick leave, Sergt. Saywell put the pen through the sword bayonet exercise which was done very creditably indeed. Sergt. Aitken drilled the corps in the manual exercise which was also well done. Vol. Card then called the roll, and all absentees were fined. Parades for March are advertised to-day. The Surgeon-in-Ghief of the Roumanian Army rejoices in the classic name of Dr Demosthenes. Just lately he has had the brilliant idea of testing the new Mannlicher rifle by firing at human corpses. It appears that the bullet will go clean through three bodies at a distance of nearly half a mile. It was not so much that, how* ever, that interested Dr Demosthenes as the character of the wounds inflicted. These, it seems, were horrible in bones and arteries. But the flesh wounds were smaller and smoother than those caused by the other rifles*