"OUR CITIZEN ARMY."
To the Editor. Sir—l read your article on "Our Citizen Army," and particularly the sentences Condemning bullseyc shooting, with very great interest. Would you he 'good enough to explain why the Defence authorities, apparently despairing of teaching : the units musketry with their present staff (of wlioni it may be doubted 'if even one of them ever won a marksmnft's- 'badge), have engaged as musketry, experts Sergeant-Major Wallingford and Sergeant Oinmuiulsen? Roth these gentlemen arc Jiullseye shots, I'trained 011 the bullseve, and recognised I as'the best shots in the Empire at that [: oibjeflb. Have they .-been engaged because they are musketry experts, or is the engagement offered to'them in a sort of missionary spirit to convince them their methods ;tre "wrong?—T am, etc., ' : TIIKEE FINGERS RIGHT.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 53, 24 August 1911, Page 7
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128"OUR CITIZEN ARMY." Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 53, 24 August 1911, Page 7
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