TERRITORIAL TRAINING

Marlborough Express, Volume LIII, Issue 278, 26 November 1919, Page 5

TERRITORIAL TRAINING

STATffiMESfT IB^ IEtEEENCB

MINISTJiR,

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¥: ' ' DEKEDIN, JN tqv. .24. In - a statemenifca^iViSin.g'JEeviritorie.l .training Sir James Allen said that it appeared that many the public •opposed four Hwmfcbs.' concentration <of Territorials during .the ;firs_t Uhe public must be tibe ilthuate judge of what was bast., and M dour aß.Qnths were unacceptable he M«r.uld suggest that two months .c.f eoncentiated training for the first year and two weeks in each year for the avxt tw© years would give much better jjte■stsJte .than the present -system and eois>t \jip moi*e money His judgment, tirad ;he was supported by those w*ho knew best, was that the present system was 'inefficient; and if they want, ed to -get the best results from the expenditure it certainly sSioidd he improvjQil. Sir James Allen added: "The improved scheme /which I now put forward for, consideration/involves time years' twining instead of eeven. It dees away with afternoon and * venmg parades, ajnd asks for two months' training at jLS-yeara, fourteen days at 19, and fourteen days at 20, after which" a Territorial ijs passed into the reserve. Instead of twenty-four days of one hour jn each year for seven years there -would be sixty days in the first year and fourteen days for each of the n<&xt two years. Camps Should be available in tooth islands, ami, as they would be open the greater part of €he year for Territorial training, employers and, employees could sele<& times to suit their «*oi/enience.