ARMY MIXES RELIGION AND EXERCISE
London. British soldiers trained on a mixed course of religion and the toughest exercise are breaking athletic records at a former monastery near Cyrene, in Cyrenaica. The trainees’ day begins at dawn. Not with a parade, but with a religious service.
Then they carry on jumoing from first floor windows, walking along narrow walls on rocky ground where a fall could moan serious injury, and diving through open windows into the road" beyond without touching the frame.
A route march of 21 miles is a mere incidental.
Every day Army athletic records are being broken by men who had never run or jumper; betore. Savs the Chaolain-Gcncral to the forces: What we're teaching there is that a man can go to the uttermost extremes of physical effort if he allows God to heip him. ,
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23316, 27 July 1950, Page 5
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