BRITISH ARMY TRAINING.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 224, 22 September 1925, Page 8

BRITISH ARMY TRAINING.

FIFTY THOUSAND TROOPS.

ALL ARMIES ENGAGED. THE CLASH TO-DAY. (Hy Cable. —Press Association.—Copyright.) (Received 2.:10 p.m.) LONDON", September 21. The Thames Valley is the path to London. The English thief of Staff is bound to the same geographical limitations that circumscribed the Romans, who placed camp after camp along the course. To-day great tanks crawled over the same area. I'ontinued bad weather may seriously interfere with the campaign, thereby sacrificing valuable military information. Although the men on the London side are more numerous, the Reds are more mobile, possessing more aeroplanes and cavalry. The question of the whole manoeuvres devolves on, "Shall the 'Reds' advance nn London';" Afler the first shot is fired to-night it will take four days to supply the answer. Southern England at dawn to-morrow will witness a gigantic clash of arms, 50,000 troops taking part. In all probability the King will appear on the "battlefield at the critical moment. Two days' rain has transformed the greater part of the area on which the opposing armies are gathered into a sea of mud reminiscent of a winter in France. One army is guarding the approach to London against another distinguished by red signs and flags, and known, therefore ac "Reds," —(A. and N.Z.) These are th© first army manoeuvres since the Great War. and are held on Salisbury Plain. All arms, the air force, and -the tanks, will be engaged. The Eastland army will be under General Chetwode, and the West under General Sir Alexander Godley, G.O.C. the New Zealand forces in tho Great War. A battle, approximating actual war, will be fought in order to co-ordinate all branches, artillery, calvary, engineers, infantry, R.A.M.C., tanks, and R.A.F.