STUDENT SOLDIERS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 55, 6 March 1935, Page 8

STUDENT SOLDIERS.

UNITED STATES TRAINING.

AUSTRALIAN'S IMPRESSIONS,

(By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.)

WELLINGTON, Tuesday,

The introduction of military training to the secondary schools of the United States, as well as to camps containing single unemployed, was commented on by Mr. A. J. Everett, of Sydney, who arrived at Wellington by the Maunganui yesterday after a nine months' visit to America.

Mr. Everett holds a lieutenant's commission in Australia, and in California he joined the military school at the University of California. With his previous training in Australia he was able to finish the third and fourth year general courses at the school in nine months.

"At the university they have military instruction every day, and at the end of the year they arc examined in it, 'just as in any other course," Mr. Everett said. "The students learn the technique of machine-gun warfare, poison gas, and riiap reading, together with general field tactics. I understand that students in all the colleges and high schools have compulsory training. Later they join the Reserve Officers' Training Corps as junior lieutenants." Mr. Everett went through one of the many citizens' concentration enmps, where single unemployed men are organised in scrub cutting and similar jobs under military control. Some of the officers arc members of the training corps, and others are sergeants and officers from the permanent staff. All wear their regular uniforms, and the men themselves wear an informal type of uniform with forage cape.