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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume II, Issue 153, 24 May 1900, Page 1

Training Kough Eiders. 0 The wave 01 warlike feeling which is surging round the world, has reached tEe State of Colorado, where steps are being taken to start a system of military training on new lines. Guided, doubtless, by the war in South Africa, the Commander -in - Chief of Color; do, Governor Thomas, ho,s decided o give up the best of his enerrios to training rough riders. TVit.h tbiobject in view, he has induced _.", civil authorities to S6t awde r. yer T large area of land, where young men between the ages of seventeen and twenty-five may receive instruction in rough riding, scouting, reading the signs >of Nature and trailing. It is proposed that the camp should be continuous, and io is"thought that in the course of a year, a man wilj have received sufficient training over mountain, plain and valley, to make him an efficient rough rider in every sense of the woid. The huge encampment will also be utilised to develop the new signal service system of wireless telegraphy and to carry on experiments with military balloons, aerostatic photography and so Lrth. Lieutenant Farrow, who will be placed in charge of the encampment, has stated that the rifle that wjII be used in training the men is a late invention, and- is indefinitely superior to the Krag-Jorgensen rifle, which is now used in the United States Army. li, is not intended to arm the rongh riders with either bayonets or revolvers •their only weapon beinj tba r?ilo. In support of their $0 ji, authorities of Colorado t,.;, ie these timea, men o i iioisel.^oi", whether they are called tK i * v, u^ cavalry, mountod infantry, o? 1 io^Li riders, are the most impouaut branch of an army in the field. Tt has been pointed out, however, that though a man may bo v, </. [ armed, well mounted, ant ",A< , trained, he is 01 no more \vJ .c than a foot soldier unless ha is cii expert rider. It is necessary, therefore, that special attention should be devoted to his horsemanship. In the training camp at Colorado, the tactics will be conducted very much, on the lines adopted by (ha 'Indians and the Boei-s, A certain amount of individual initiative wi-i be allowed to each soldier, and as far as possible the plan of battle will be communicated to the whole regiment before the fighting begins. What it v going to happen will be known -not only to the commanding officers, but also to every man, and each one will have a clear idea of the right thing to do in the emergencies that arise on the battlefield. The system ifc is proposed to adopt in Colorado will be, in short,, in direei opposition to the presupppsi- ; fcioxi of unreasoning, unintelligent obedience, which, it is held, has been too prominent a feature in the European armies of the past. " - "* 4

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