BRITISH SOLDIER
EQUIPMENT CRITICISED POSITION UNDER REVIEW LONDON. March 19 The Daily Mail urges the adequate equipment of the British soldier to enable him to meet the German, whoso battalions, it says, are provided with trench mortars, anti-tank guns and machine-guns, while every soldier has an automatic rifle.
The German Army is mechanised throughout, says the paper, whereas Britain's is or d.Y experimentally equipped in this respect. Tanks also have dwindled.
The position is similar to that when Buller, at the outbreak of the Boer War, preferred foot soldiers to Australia's proffered Light Horse. Afterwards he admitted lie needed mounted forces. Fighters should be controlled by young and alert minds instead of relying on the tactics of 1866 or 1870.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21755, 21 March 1934, Page 11
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