TRAINING FOR SERVICE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16798, 14 March 1918, Page 8

TRAINING FOR SERVICE.

Sir,— have yet to hear, in view of the now very serious complications which have arisen, of a scheme in which all youths of, say, between 16 and 20, would bo compelled to go to camp in order to fit themselves for the firing-line when they come of age; the short drills they get now can only be of the very elemen tavy order. ' Four years in camp would result in trained men being drafted into the Expeditionary Force. The outlook appears to be so black that something in this way should be done, as we are in for a long V'W, perhaps on and off, who can tell, and it is absolutely imperative that no means should be neglected whereby we can improve>the training of our'young men, tho training men get now before proceeding to the firing-line being all too short. It is only years of training can produce '"iron discipline," and this war is either to be won or lost by those two very words, the results of which can be seen in the success which ha 3 so far been attained by the Central Powers. j J. D. Christie, I Reserve of Officers, Australian Military Forces. " j