Show BRITISH WILL ILL TAKE WEST NEST POINT AS PATTERN ut tS Military Academy Is r Considered Finest in t t the h e W World or ld J i. i P PRAISED BY ENGLISH i Institution Is Unequaled in inT T Teaching e chi g Young Men Science of Warfare LONDON July 22 Two Two years rears ago the British army was one of the smallest and best professional pro pro- armies arnies in the world pro pro-I In Inthe Inthe Inthe the first place it was young second it was well disciplined and I third and third and this Is the important point It It was officered by br men who not only knew their own duties but also knew knew and and at times did the did the work of tho noncommissioned officers and men nien It was a very small army indeed In Indeed in in- deed dead but its spirit was large and It possessed an esprit de corps unrivaled aled throughout tile the whole world The first asset of the British prewar pre pro war professional army was its youthfulness youth youth- according to 10 a high mill mili military tary authority With one or two exceptions ex ox- tho officers and men of the tho line battalions were either Inthe Inthe in inthe the prime primo of their physical strength or fast approaching It Consequently they were quick in thought and action action ac ac- ac- ac tion lion clear cloar brained and intelligent and they understood the tile meaning of the word discipline Their noncommissioned noncommissioned noncom noncom- officers were in all cases I thorough efficient men who had 1 been heen through the mill from boy to 1 private and thence upward to noncommIssioned noncommissioned non non- commissioned rank As a result therefore perfect understanding and sympathy existed between them and tho the men nen under them Add to qualities of the prewar prewar prewar pre pre- war battalions a long line of traditions lions and battle honors and you have havethe havethe havethe the old line lino battalion as it was before before before be be- fore August 4 1914 Most 1 of these battalions went Vent overseas overseas over over- seas within a a. few weeks of the beginning beginning be be- ginning of the war var Some were wore terriblY terribly terribly ter ter- cut up and reformed only to tobe tobe tobe be cut up again others more lucky for a time escaped with few casualties casualties casual casual- ties tics while again some somo were How then were the gaps in these regiments filled and whence did the drafts come to keep til the tho battalions battalions battalions bat bat- ap up to full war strength From tho the special reserve battalions of the theold theold theold old army Drawn From All Classes On all the tho fronts today the strengths of the old regular battalIons battalions battal battal- ions Jons have a 1 percentage of fully sev sey- five enty-five men of the special reserve in their ranks The old regular army the the contemptible little army army Is Is no more In fact t c is dead but its name lives The British army today today today to to- day is tho most cosmopolitan of all European armies Drawn from all classes it possesses brains braIns and and brains next to discipline are a great asset to any army The old army 1 possessed possessed pos pos- discipline it lacked brains There never was any army that combined com corn both brains and discipline Lord Roberts advocated national training for years rears Why Because he knew in the first place that every evory man a soldier meant an army prepared ared for war at any moment and second because he knew that a a. cos co- cosmopolitan army recruited from men of all classes and trades must possess possess pos pOSe sess Eess brains When the war Is over Great Britain must have an efficient and up to date army This means that she must have either a large standing army of conscripted men or a smaller standing conscript army with a large reserve If the first then Lord Roberta Roberts Roberts' Roberts Roberts' Rob Rob- erts' erts every man a soldier for three years would bo be necessary If on the other hand the British government government govern govern- ment meat chose to keep kepp up a smaller standing army and a large reserve these latter forces should undergo a yearly training of not less than six weeks including a course of machine gun and musketry practice The men who form this reserve should be placed in classes as on the conti conti- nent rient and on their being called to the colors to undergo their preliminary nary training it is only rational to expect them to do at least one year or eighteen months in the standing army before relegated to the reserve Good soldiers can be made from almost any material provided they are well wen officered There Thero are in England now and there will be after the tho war a very large number of pub lie lic School men All these men given good training and education in mill mili tary academies will furnish the tho officer of of- fleer material At present there are In England three military schools for officers 1 IX Royal Military college Sandhurst 2 Royal Hoyal Military acad- acad erny Woolwich 3 Staff college Three Officers Officers' Schools i T The e Pst ot of 1 these takes young men In hand and turns them into 7 11 and cavalry of officers cers the second und undertakes the training of would be gunners and engineer of officers and the tho last the e S Staff college Is ls a school school chool fo for officers offIcer who wish to enter the staff and learn Yearn the Inner mysteries of ot the art of war These hese institution Institutions f are e considered all a that they should h w be er erin In in J There their le Is Is n no recognizes recognized flaw eith eith- teaching or in their teach teach- ers But they ar are Just about large enough to to 10 train me Uie officers of the Montenegrin l army and no larger At I present then England has three schools for army officers After this thU war ar it i te is proposed to keep up a large laree I army army- and reserve Jut sut this cannot be done with two schools for cadets and one college for staff officers If this large army is to be built built up at least twenty ten and four tour staff colleges will be necessary There are plenty of ot excellent wounded officers who are no longer fit for service but who are quite capable of furnishing staffs for these new schools They have bave I had prewar experience which is useful useful use ful and experience probably experience probably more than enough enough of of this war warS which is I necessary so that there will be no dearth of instructors But the whole training system for officers will have to be changed In America as this officer says there is 15 a a. sch school ol for army officers at West Point From this college are turned out year by year the finest infantry cavalry engineer and artillery artillery artillery artil artil- lery officers In the world Three years ago a young general was having hay hav I ing tug tea in an officers officers' mess not far from Aldershot when the conversation I turned to Sandhurst and the training of the young officer Said one subaltern subaltern sub sub- altern I Talk about the Guards sir We knock them hollow every time we go goon goon goon I on parade I believe you said the general but there is on on military school which knocks the Guards Woolwich and Sandhurst into a a. cocked hat Wheres that sir asked the sub sub- I altern West Point In America replied the general |