SECRET OF SUCCESS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 214, 17 February 1915, Page 7

SECRET OF SUCCESS.

DISCIPLINE AND SHOOTING. A GENERAL'S ADVICE. The following extract Is Irom a private letter to' Mrs. Arthur Oowie, of Auckland, from her brother-in-law, Onferal John Beckworth Leefo, who escorted Oronje to St. IMeim at the time of the Boer war:— "This war lias been hard on a good many of us, and, it is only beginning now. I do not expect to see the end for another year. We have not pot into Ormany yet, and then the hardest part of the work will begin. In the meantime, things are going all right, and I hope will continue on the same lines. It is a great thing that the oversea people have responded so wonderfully t'> tin; call for men. and they must all remember that whether they go to 'Trance or not. they are helping the''Empire. "There is one thing that wants impressing on all these young fellows who go out to the front, and that is. personal bravery, without.'discipline. <s not much use. The only result is often a great sacrifice of life, with no good result.-. "The reason our few troops did so well was the eomtmit training for Years befon hand, and that is the secret of success. There is only one thing to go for, and that is discipline mid good shooting. "You cannot make a soldier in a few weeks. At least six months is required before yon can depend on the men, and that is a fact many people do not seem to. yrasp. 'IVYe have had men of Kitchener's Army all round here for i'llree months now.\and thev are itnng wonders, but only a. few of the best can he sent out - T have written rather strongly about Ihi=. because we are engaged with one of the best-trained armies in the world, but our best-trained men are better. "In the end they will all come up to the same standard, and then there will be no doubt as to the result.