EVERY MAN FIT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 312, 11 June 1915, Page 4

EVERY MAN FIT.

raii FIFTH. OX THE MOVE. A MARCH WITH A MEANING. (By Wire.—Own Correspondent.) Wellington, Last Night. The Defence authorities state that tho regulation prohibiting the publication of information regarding the movements of troops and transports is still in full operation, and that dire penalties of a •nature not specified await the newspaper which transgresses. The regulation does not appear to be a particularly useful one, because the spy who wanted to know the facts about the movements of troops could get them by making a call at Trenthnm (.'amp or taking a stroll on the wharves, or asking a policeman, but there it is, and the obedient newspaper correspondent must be content to mention that the fifth reinforcements are a very fine body of troops, who have been inspected by the Governor and the Minister of Defence this week, and who will be seen marching through the streets of Wellington to-morrow and on •Saturday. The artillery section of the force inarched through'the city to-day. 'The Kvening Post mentions vaguely, and possibly indiscreetly, that there will be no speeches on Saturday. 0 The Minister of Defence referred to this body of reinforcements in conversation with your correspondent. He said it was very gratifying to see that the improvement in (he results of the training given at Trentham was progressing, and each reinforcement had shown by its bearing and efficiency that the camp staff was profiting by' experience, and that the quality of the training was steadily improving. New Zealand, add-:tl the Minister, would realise when the story of the war came to be written that the Dominion's soldiers had been particularly wjcll prepared for their duties at the front. No man had been sent fnt.> the firing line from this country until he had completed many months of arduous training. The troops had been taken into camp in regular batches and put through the .course prescribed by the War Office in a thorough, systematic way without any of the confusion tint would have resulted from, the daily or weekly admission of odd groups of recruits. The results had justified the efforts the Defence Department had made.