ASSAULT-AT-ARMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2556, 2 September 1915, Page 3

ASSAULT-AT-ARMS

Captain : ll'liaglen - and; the .. military, officers: 0011 trolling next Saturday's . asat Ne\vto\vn; Park , are .sparing no effort in making the display- the biggest,and . most successful event ,of ..its nature: ever held in- Wellington.: • ■ The, grand shain battle will in itself be worth going a long way to see, as the whole battle, is : being worked on a scale never previously attempted. There will be'infai'.try, mounted patrol, altillery, and the St. John'.' Ambulance nurses with their motor-ambulances.' 'The massed, jiu-jitsu display by a krge body of the Wellington Police Force is bound to .be veryinteresting,: as' also .the massed 'bayonet fighting, in which the' Wellington College Cadets, who have been specially trained by Captain M'Laglen, . are to take part.. v The equestrian .events are also o£ a particularly, attractive nature,. They include: Balaclava melee, riding at gibbets, Lloyd Lindsay, tug-of-wiar,, and ' wrestling on hoiseback.and stford, v. bayonet on horseback.- " As . a .concluding event 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 whole' of the proceeds are to go to the Wounded Soldiers'. Fund. -' - .-.