ASSAULT AT ARMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2552, 28 August 1915, Page 7

ASSAULT AT ARMS

■. ■■ , A' ' ' - ' The New Zealand Patriotic Society, in ■ conjunction with: the "Wellington military authorities, ■is arranging a grand; assault-at-arms and a realistic and spectacular sham battle at Newtown Park, afternoon and evening,; on Saturday, September 4. Captain Leopold M'Laglen, the inventor of the present system of bayonet fighting, has just returned from the South Island, :wbere he successfully. organised similar displays, aud he anticipates that the Wellington display will eclipse the performances given in the South Island. One of the star attractions will be the realistic sham'battle in which a very large number of Territorials; cadets, and nurses will take part. In addition to this ifem there will be a massed jiu-jitsu display by a laTgc body of-the'Wellington Police Force; massed bayonet fighting, mounted and dismounted; several exciting equestrian events in which, a number of country residents , will participate; ?, unique test of physical endurance' by Captain M'Laglcn,_ who will withstand the combined pulling power of two draught horses. As a. concluding event Captain M'Laglen will endeavour to lower his previous world's record with the broadsword by cutting eight sheep in half while going at full gallop on horseback. The programme will bo repeated, in the evening, when the park • will be brilliantly illuminated and the sham fight will take the form of a night , attack, bringing in tho use of the searchlight. -The total.proceeds are to be devoted'"to the Wounded Soldiers' Fund, which in view of tlie heavy casualty lists must be considerably augmented.. '