USE OF THE RIFLE
Preparedness for an Emergency
Mlr 4* Puf Cppper, Seeratary foy War, referred to the way EngUsh people had developed the handling of a lifle ia defead their eountry into q lational aport when he sppke at a din* W o t the Eugliih Twenty QJub in Lop* He added: "It ia not a beautiful thiag or a flesirable thing-r-ipdped it is a hatefui think and a damnabie thing. think wa shouid have tp phoot eur ItJlew men, bnt, aa it haa to be de»e, H had bftter be iona w*U." •*The longer we keep alive in Eqg-' land the sport of self-defence," he
■ftidi f'so much longer may we keep the other good things for whieh England standp. We may'be faced by au emergeney, apd if ia the duty of everyone to see to*day that we ean prepare our eountry for that emergency when it eoraes. It is a primary duty of every man to do eomething to defend his eountry. There can be no excuse for faiUng in auy way," Admiral of the Fleet, Sir Ernle Ohatffeld, First Sea Lord, said that as sailOrs had to he ready to take th© place of soldiers in an emergency, it was essential that they shouid know how to iaadlo a rifle.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 37, 27 February 1937, Page 17
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