THE BRITISH ARMY.
THE OFFICERS FOR JAPAN.
By Telegraph.—Press Association—Copyright.
(Received February 6, 1.5 a.m.)
Melbourne, February 6.
I'm: Defence Department has been informed of the arrangement made by the War Office with the Japanese Government, under which four British officers are to be selected annually for two years' study and residence in Japan. When the officers have been four months in the country they will be required to pass a, colloquial test in the language. A second examination, oral and written, ii to be held when a year has been spent. During the second year of their stay, th« officers will be under the orders of the military attache at Tokio, to whom they will have to send diaries every month. The final examination, which precedes the officers' departure, is to relate to general powers of conversation in Japanese, and a knowledge of military history and tactics in the Far East.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13094, 6 February 1906, Page 5
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