VERBOSE AND CARELESS.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 June 1924, Page 1

VERBOSE AND CARELESS.

LONDON. March 11. "Avoid catch phrases, overstatements. and superlatives, and do tun write tor eileet.” future candidates for admission to Army stall' colleges are advised in a report issued hy the War (Wire on a recent entrance examination. Some ol' the comments are: The besetting sins of the majority of the candidates were carelessness and lack of method. Tiiere was a general tendency to verbosity. -Many candidates’ ideas as to future developments in organisation were unpractical. N d one appeared to realise that the transport of an aimy can only he expanded on mobilisation hy utilising vehicles of a type* already existing in civil use. A very noticeable feature (of Imperial organisation papers) was that candidates had clearly paid much urea ter attention in their studies to matters concerning oilier countries—mainly the Middle and Near Hast. Russia and the Ruhr—than to the ro(|uirements of their own liriti.sh Isles. Many appeared to he ton imbued with politics to me neglect of military thought, and, while they could write much about what they considered ( other nations wish to take unto themselves in the way of foreign pat:sessions, they could say very little about matters nearer home'. (hi the whole, the knowledge of the geography of the I’hnpirc was weak, as is shown h.v the fact that the only purely geographical question was aticmptcd hy fewer candidates than any oilier.