GO-AS-YOU-PLEASE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10454, 20 October 1911, Page 4

GO-AS-YOU-PLEASE.

Territorials, will be interested; itv a statement by the TTnited Service Gazette that a modificatbn in iherules of marching is contempt -,t':-l :n 'connection With the British joi-vices. It is proposed to relieve fivm the necessity of keeping step, allowing them to march as thoy ph-ahc in-, that respect, maintaining i'nars," however. "A trial of the. !X r, -aa-yo,a please style' is to be a,feature oi thl«. year's .manoeuvres, and (says tiip Gazette) we think it is a >en-. : l>!t measure,- for it must be patent to all thinking men that to put . 'ruin,who is only sft 2in by the ..ide of "another who stands 6ft in hi« and expect ihem to march for thirty miles in unison of step is r.di-jiilous. That tihere are points for the keening ,step theory we readily {'dmit. Init when there is no band, '.he rcsuls are uneven, and men are. tir.'d, the unison of step is a tax on w jkl and strength that could be avoid-.*!, and, as the main, object is to «<cur, a high collective result with the minimum of fatigue, it appears to be wrong."