TRAINING IN CAMPS

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 83, 7 April 1924, Page 8

TRAINING IN CAMPS

<:-.■• • — ■* . • ;.■■:■■ ". ■•-■- ■?!•■•.■■■ -'T •■ '■ ''::' iy'.■■'/■'if.' In his 'farewell message, on. reliri-, quishing' his position as General Officer? '.'Commanding the Forces, Major-General! •'" | Chaytor thanked the officers'of the Ter->: ritoriali-Forc-} for devotion to Jheir units;."' which "had \ resulted in niaintaming a' . standard of --efficiency Avhicli,' in vii>w of: • the very limited opportunities now avail- = able for training,.must'be coneidered to! be extremely ..satisfactory." .; . , ■■ . Commentmjc; oh . th^s 'statement to- -V day, the Mi.'iister.of" Defence, the Hon.? Sir R. VH. XRhodes, said lie concurred: iii what the .retiring commandei; said |-with regard to the1 difficulties he has had' .i to overcome^ during the period of re-i I trenchmelit. "Everybody .is agreed,"' [said the Minister, "that the msot^vAl-i, uable. training the Territorials ci),n :pos-|. v sibly receivers during- the pertod! ot ' concentrated training in cam?j and, for; [ the "most part, they have" had-to fp'rego'i these-camps' owing to th 6 necessity ..off effecting economy." ■' -•■ " ■ . : !■ .

• Eton has -a waiting list~br pupili loiis ! enpugh to QU it till 1934. . , ; . . ■,