BRITAIN’S ARMY MUST NOT LAG BEHIND
Process of Mechanisation COMPARISON DRAWN BY BRITISH NEWSPAPER By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. (Received March 20, 7.0 p.m.) London, March 20. The "Daily Mail,” in a leader, urges the provision of adequate equipment for the British soldier to enable him to meet the German, whose battalions are provided with trench-mortars, antitank guns, and machine-guns, while every soldier has an automatic rifle. The’German army was mechanised throughout, while Britain’s was only experimentally equipped in this respect. The number of tanks had also dwindled. The position was similar to that when General Sir Redvers Buller, at the outbreak of the Boer War, preferred foot soldiers to Australia’s proffered light horse. Afterwards he admitted that he needed mounted forces. The fighters should be controlled byyoung and alert minds instead of reiying on the tactics of 1866 or 1870.
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Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 149, 21 March 1934, Page 9
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