TRAINING AND DISCIPLINE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 373, 26 April 1910, Page 5

TRAINING AND DISCIPLINE.

INDISPENSABLE TO THE WELFARE OP THE EMPIRE.

By Cable—Press Association—Copyright,

Adelaide, April 25,

Admiral Sir Day Bosanquet, Governor of South Australia, in a speech before the St. George's Society, • gave his opinion on naval training in view oi the work which lies -before Australia in this direction. Training and discipline, he declared, came before everything. If these were inadequate they might spend money by millions without any .good result. In the navy an inadequately trained personnel was a terrible danger, and a danger most difficult to discover. As a rale it was only found when war had actually commenced. He was as much opposed to war as any man, but the Navy existed for war, for victory, and for no, other purpose. If they were inefficiently trained and inadequate in knowledge, a disciplined foe would sweep them all away. They must not rely on discipline and training unless they were of the very best. Tins was removed from the second best by only a slight degree of efficiency, but it meant the difference between victorv and defeat. Every Admiral of the Fleet on every station in the world must be constantly thinking of war. and nothing else was his ilrasiness. In building;up a Navy the Commonwealth should pursue its way steadily and thoroughly, especially in training men. He considered men w(-re not thoroughly cnnsvble of meeting al! exigencies till thov had spent seven vears in constant training.