ARMY TRAINING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14018, 25 March 1909, Page 6

ARMY TRAINING.

AN IMPORTANT MEMORANDUM. The Imperial General Staff has issued a memorandum of interest to volunteers in New, Zealand and elsewhere, with refer-, ence to the training of forces at Home and in the British dominions. The memorandum has been prepared with the object of drawing attention to regulations affecting training about to be published, modifying the existing regulations, of reviewing the progress of training during recent years, and of endeavouring to influence training in certain desired directions. It touches upon the question of direct and indirect artillery fire, and states that a solution , as to which ie the better Is not likely to be arrived, at for pome time to come. Until Xhe artillery has still further developed its power of dealing with moving targets by indirect fire without-loss of time, the only possible course to take is to insist that positions for indirect or direct fir© must be taken up in accordance with th© tactical situations. The new courses of musketry training have been designed, states the memorandum, with regard to such conditions as invisibility of target, effect of hostile fire, necessitating the use of cover, etc.;- It is , also stated that sufficient importance has not been attached, nor sufficient attention faid, to training in machine gun practice, nstructions in regard to this will shortly be issued. ' '*'- '. • ".