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Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 233, 25 June 1915, Page 3

MARGIN NOT BIG ENOUGH. Addressing the members of the Northampton Volunteer Training Corps, whom he inspected on a recent Sunday afternoon, Lord Charles Beresford said that we had to realise that while the German fleet was on top of the water we were not safe. So many things happened in naval warfare. The changes of weather inseparable from the sea upset the most careful calculations,and it made it imperative there should be an overwhelming margin in our side. Our margin was not big enough to make it absolutely certain we were safe, and we must not rest, in our exertions in providing more men, more munitions and more ships until the German fleet was at the bottom of the sea. That we should win h e was certain, but it would be no light business.

OFFICERS FIRST UNDER FIRE* “If a maxi tells you that he was as cool as a cucumber the very first t|ime he was under shell fire, put him down as a liar.” said a gallant major who left an arm at Neuve Chapelle, to the London correspondent of the “Dispatch.”- The military chiefs are well aware that it takes the average brave man a Little time to get accustomed to fire. In some of the Territorial regiments which have recently gone to the front the rank anl file have been left in the rear while the officers have been sent right up to the first lino of trenches. When the officers are fully acclimatised the men gro forward, and then they benefit by the fact that their leaders have already acquired the coolness of veterans.

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