GUERRILLA WARFARE
AUSTRALIA PREPARES SPECIAL TRAINING PLAN <3.15i p.m.) SYDNEY, June 26. A rapid expansion, of guerrilla training in the Australian Army to help form a spearhead bf offensive operations will soon be. undertaken. Already volunteers are being called fbi* in all Units Of ..the army, to attend a special guerrilla .training school for several weeks. No limit ha s been placed on the number of volunteers, but they must be over 20 and under 35 years of age, intelligent, active, medically fit, and With a liking, for physical training, personal combat, and rough-ahd-tuihble tactics. They must be willing to physical risk outside that usually , taken by personnel serving In the fighting units. Before they attend the. special school they will have at least three months’ preliminary military training. At jifjie guerrilla school, ..the course WfiJL include field craft, night operations, unarmed combat, the use of all Weapons and explosives, demolition Work* bSoby traps, raids, riding. sWimrnihg, and othbr athletic undertakings, '
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20821, 27 June 1942, Page 5
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