UNIVERSAL TRAINING.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXI, Issue LXII, 16 May 1912, Page 5

UNIVERSAL TRAINING.

THE COMMONWEALTH SCHEME. B_ CABLE—I'EESS ASaOUIATION—COPYRIGHT. SYDNEY, May 15. The regulations for the universal training scheme, under which the first ■batch of ten thousand senior cadets are to be drafted into the military forces in July, have been published. They also cover the reorganisation of the existing infantry and light horse brigades. The national regiments of English, Scottish and Irish,in the various States disappear, the members being, embodied into the forces newly created. Provision is made for the immediate «oreation of four new batteries of field ■artillery.-/