TRAINING THE YOUNG
In- the second month of tho war the Prussian Minister of Education appealed to tho schools'to introduce a mild .form of military training. This has long since been extended all over Germany. Furthermore, voluntary training for-youths from the ago of 16 to 18 has become quite goiieral. Munich to-day boasts of. a Junglandsturm containing upwards of 8000 youths. Tho Berlin papers announce some neld manoeuvres for a, corps of 4000 to'take place in the district of Furstenwald on November 11 and 12. These youths are recruited from Brandenburg. They will-go.yinto military quarters, and a series of night operations will bo gone through leading up to big manoeuvres •in which aircraft, cavalry, and probably artillery, too, will take part — "Daily Mail."
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2966, 3 January 1917, Page 3
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123TRAINING THE YOUNG Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2966, 3 January 1917, Page 3
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