ARMAMENTS AND MEN

Hastings Standard, Volume XIII, Issue 4444, 25 April 1910, Page 5

ARMAMENTS AND MEN

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AUSTRALIA'S INSPECTORGENERAL'. London, April 23 The "Morning Post" sajs that Colonel Kirkpatrick's appointment is another indication of the serious attention which Australia is now disposed to give to military organition. It was natural, but hardly logical, that national pride should before have insisted that the Inspec-tor-General should be an Australian officer. That idea has now been abandoned. .

AUSTRALIAN NAVY. THE NEED FOR DISCIPLINE ANU TRAINING. (Received 25,845 a.m.) Adelaide, April 25. Admiral Sir Day Bosanqutt, Governor of South Australia, in a speech before the St. George's Society, gave his opinion on naval training in view of the work which lies before Australia in this direction. j Training and discipline, he declared, came before everything, and ! if these were inadequate they might spend money by the millions without any good result. In a navy with a quickly - trained personnel there was a terrible danger, and the danger was most difficult to discover, it, as a rule, being only found when war had actually commenced. He was as much opposed to war as any J man, but the navy existed for war, j for victory, and for no other pur-1 pose. If they were inefficiently trained and inadequate in knowledge and discipline, the enemy would sweep them all away. They must not rely on discipline and training unless it w as of the very best. This was removed from the second best by only a slight degree of efficiency, but it meant the difference between victory and defeat. Every Admiral of the fleet on every station in the world must He constantly thinking of war, and nothing else was his business. In building up its navy the Commonwealth should pursue the way steadily and thoroughly, especially in training men. He considered that men were not thoroughly capable of meeting all exigencies tiil'thej hid spent <even seven years in constant traini ig.

THE DUTTES OF CITIZENSHIP (Received 25,9.15 a.m) Pans, April 24 Mr Roosevelt was ovationed at the Sorbonne .University. In his address he touched upon the duties of citizenship, and, without mentioning anti-militarism, he scathingly dealt with the dangers leading thereto. He also denounced race suicide.