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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 191, 18 August 1900, Page 4

iHE TRAINING OF OUR OFFICERS. Ah unsigned paper in CornUll for Tune, bearing the title of " The ' New Model' Officer," does not deal with 'romwell's creation, but with a newer model yet to be. The writer complains that "at present the Army is only a serious profession for those who personally choose to make it so." An officer is not expected to live on his pay, he is openly required to have private means, and consequently t* e nation hardly feels in a position to insist that his large leisure be spent in; professional study. The result appears in the pres nt war : A very large section of a very welllisposecl public is becoming rather iveary and not a little impatient of the list of traps, losses, captures, misbaps, and all the rest of it, apparently lue to forgetfulness or neglect of what ought to be common form; reverses which are only ascribable to defective training, because the self-sacrifice heroism, and endurance of the officers employed comirand their warmest admiration and respect A most striking instance of absent-mindedness in garrison duty previous to the war is point d out with unconscious humour by General Buller. He issued an address commending and very justly commending, his trooj s for effecting the relief of Ladysmi hj, not only in the face of a detevmind enemy, but " through an unknown country." | This unknown country extended for a distance of from sixteen miles to three miles from the Aldershot of Natal, where for months before the war a million pounds' worth of supplies had been collected, and where artillery and infantry and the nucleus of a final) army had been cantoned for half a year. Yet, though the force stationed there knew they had no reliable map, they had made no surveys, no sketch* s (or French would have brought them out *hen he left Ladysmith), and when Buller with thirty thousand men, was trying to fight through, he never knew when he stormed a hill what there was on the other side. The writer urges root e easy promoby merit, and the payment of a proper and adequate salary.

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