NEW ART OF WAR.

Taihape Daily Times, 6 March 1918, Page 5

NEW ART OF WAR.

BRITISH TRAINING METHODS,

London, Feb 26,

Mr. Perry Robinson, correspondent of the “Times,” describes a new school of instruction at the front. Ostensibly it is for bayonet and musketry work, but really it is for.teaching the larger creed of physical and moral fitness, keenness, good fellowship, and camaradie. Small time is given to drill, and smaller still to lectures, which are entertaining, wholesome talk, full of humour and anecdote. The great thing is the gapies, All games teach a combination of self-re-liance, quickness of hand, foot, and eye. The games include fencing, boxing, basketball, football, and tug-of-war, The instructors includes world’s champion. It is a delight to watch a hundred men in a great gymnasium, boxing and wrestling, and hundreds outside on a wind-swept hill engaged at other sports. Nowhere else is there such a scene of riotous exuberant life and physical fitness. A three weeks’ course sends the men back bubbling with health and spirits, full of fine ideals and ready for good citizenship after the war. .. •