DISCIPLINE IN THE BRITISH ARMY.
TO THE EDITOR* Sib, —Having perused with' surprise the report of your oorreipou dent's interview with Major Sommerville/xeported in Monday’s New Zeadanu Times, I wish to oontiadict< most emphatically ono of tho astounding statements ! therein contained, namely: “It waa a matter of astonishment to the officers to see a New Zealand man salute when he- went-np to:, speak-*to an officer. The Horae men never thought of doing anything of the kind” Happily, such a breach of discipline is practically unknown in ihe British Army, and I write to i sufulc w h it would be a refl-otion upon the ■service to which 1 have tho honour, to am. &0., Duojlkt Alexander) ■ Captain, ’’ • “MM, «Prince of Wales’ Own'* Regiment. ] WliPgt9o,'Qot<ib<!i aa
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New Zealand Times, Volume LXVI, Issue 3263, 21 October 1897, Page 3
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