INSPECTION OF TROOPS.
A BUNGLED PARADE.. [PRESS ASSOCIATION COPYRIGHT.] (Received 16, 11.10 a.m.) Melbourne, Feb. 16.. The review of the metropolitan troops is not likely to have created a favourable impression. General Sir lan H aniiTton was kept Waiting five minutes before the officers were aware that he had arrived, and there was an embarrassing delay in ‘arranging th’e troops for the salute. The massed bands were so far away that they could hardly be heart!.; The general expressed himself pleased with tjie work of the men who marched past, butt skid the _ ceremonial parade gave the reviewing officer the, chance of seeing iow the officers handled th%ir-men and they inust not be taken by surprise ; the gbrteral must be looked , upon as an enemy, because ’ ne tried to pick holes in everything. They should be ready fo? him. »
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume III, Issue 357, 17 February 1914, Page 6
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