MILITARY EXPERIMENTS.
Experiments have been called out in the Long Valley, at Aldershot, with a view to test the capacity of fcrooos to cope with the contingencies of mo'lern warfare with savage tribes. The aim of Sir Evelyn Wood, since he has held his present command, has been to encourage musketry practice, and the work was mainly devoted to this object. All arms were represented. The Engineers quickly laid their field telegraphs in the area marked out for the operations, and shortly before noon the attack was fully developed. The general idea was the force was advancing from Bagshot to Farnham, the enemy being represented by targets by heads and shoulders and full length figures, towards which the force advanced. After the cavalry scouts of the 16th Lancers had found the position of the enemy, the field battery opened fire, and under cover of this the Infantry advanced in the new attack formation, and maintained a steady and, as it proved from subsequent examination of the targets, a moderately accute fire.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 2736, 25 January 1890, Page 6 (Supplement)
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171MILITARY EXPERIMENTS. Waikato Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 2736, 25 January 1890, Page 6 (Supplement)
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