MILITARY DISPLAY.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 133, 12 June 1909, Page 5

MILITARY DISPLAY.

SHAM FIGHT AT ALDERSHOT. PRESS DELEGATES HONOURED. INSPECTING THE KING'S MAILS. By Tfilegrapli.— Press Association.— Copyright (Received June 12, 8.50 a.m.) LONDON, 11th June. Tho delegates to the Imperial Press Conference, at the invitation of the War Office, to-day visited Aldershot, and witnessed a sham fight aVid grand military review. On arrival at Brookwood station, shortly after 10 o'clock, of the special train conveying the delegates, the close contact stage of a battle was in full progress in the surrounding country, about twenty thousand men being engaged. The delegates were taken by motorcar round the battlefield, and watched the operations from different points of vantage, the military situation being explained to them by officers told off for the purpose. The display concluded with a grand march-past. General Sir J. D. French, InspectorGeneral of the Forces, and Mr. R. B. Haldane, Secretary for War, entertained the delegates at luncheon. Yesterday the Right Hon. Sydney Buxton, Postmaster-General, received the delegates to the Imperial Press Conference at the Post Office, where they were shown the organisation working of the various branches of the vast establishment. Mr. Murray, late of the New Zealand Herald, showed the Murray multiplex. Among other machines exhibited was the Gell keyboard perforator, the invention cf a New Zealander, once in the Telegraph service at Nelson, N T ew Zealand. Mr. Donald Murray (son of Mr. John Murray, who was general manager of the Bank of New Zealand before the headquarters was shifted to Wellington) was on the literary staff of the New Zealand Herald for some time after he had finished his education. He was afterwards leader of the Sydney Morning Herald reporting staff, a position which he resigned in order that he might have more time to push his multiplex telegraph invention. Mr. John Gell was born in Wellington, and was in the New Zealand Telegraph Department for many years. After filling the position of officer.incharge of the Telegraph Office at CaMe bay for a few years, ho resigned l<'om the service 2 with tho object of going Home to biing his patent under" the notice of experts. The tekpaph officials at Home were quick to recognise the advantages of tho New Zealanders' inventions.