TRAINING AND DISCIPLINE.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIV, Issue 93, 26 April 1910, Page 7

TRAINING AND DISCIPLINE.

THE FIRST REQUISITES FOR A NAVY.

TRAINING SHOULD LAST SEVEN YEARS.

[PRESS ASSOCIATION.] ADELAIDE, April 25

Admiral Bosanquet, the Governor, in a speech before St. George s Society, gave his opinion on naval training in view of the work which lies before Australia in this direction. Training and discipline, he declared, came before •everythne;. If these were inadequate they might spend money by the million without any good result. In tho Navy a quickly-trained personel was a terrible danger, and a danger most difficult to discover. As a rule it was found only when war actually commenced. He was as much opposed to war as any man, but they existed for war for victory, and for no other purpose. If they were inefficiently trained and inadequate in knowledge and discipline war would sweep them all away. They must not rely on discipline and training unless of the very best. This was removed "from the second best by only a slight degree of efficiency, but that meant the difference between victory and defeat. Every Admiral of the Fleet on ©very station in the world must be i constantly thinking of war and of nothing else; it was his business. In building up a Navy the Commonwealth should pursue her way steadily and thoroughly, especially in the training of the men. He considered that men were not thoroughly capable of meeting all exigencies till they had spent seven years in constant training.