STRENUOUS SOLDIERING.
PUTTING THE TROOPS TO THE
TEST
[PKESS ASSOCIATION.] (Received Jan. 4, 1.10 a.m.) BRISBANE, Jan. 3. Lord Kitchener is providing the troops in thfe Lytton camp (consisting of light horse and infantry) with a strenuous day's work, operating against a supposed force landed from a hostile fleet at Cleveland, 20 miles from the camp, and marching upon Brisbane.
Expecting surprise orders, lew officers went to bed. The turn-out came at two o'clock this morning. By three the whole force was marching. For several hours it was kept busy manoeuvring over difficult country.
Evidently the intention of the fieldmarshal was to test the mobility of "the force, the stamina of the men, and the resourcefulness of the leaders.
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Marlborough Express, Volume XLIV, Issue 2, 4 January 1910, Page 5
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119STRENUOUS SOLDIERING. Marlborough Express, Volume XLIV, Issue 2, 4 January 1910, Page 5
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