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Show VALUE OF TRAINING. The Austrians who were a.ble to cuter cu-ter Italy after great numbers of the best German soldiers had been sent to their aid have just had their first brush with tho French troops who were sent to aid the Italians. Tho result must have boon something of a shock to the officers and men alike, for the French made short work of them and actually captured more prisoners than they had troops engaged. The Austrians, who were used to fighting with the Kus-sians Kus-sians and Rumanians, says the dispatch, dis-patch, were unable to resist the highly trained French soldiers, who knocked them about in every direction. The incident in-cident proves French superiority, but it also proves that nowadays soldiers must be more thoroughly trained than ever before if they are able to do so much as hold their own against an enemy fully instructed in the art of war. This is why the United States is slow in getting get-ting a great army into the field. The process of making efficient soldiers is slow and tedious and those who are sent forth to fight half trained need not be expected to come back alive unless un-less they surrender like many of the Austrians in Italy did when they realized real-ized that they were no match for the gallant Frenchmen. |