ARMY ADVISER

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24634, 16 June 1941, Page 4

ARMY ADVISER

MILITARY RESERVE INSPECTED GENERAL WILLIAMS IN DUNEDIN Lieutenant-general Sir Guv Williams, K.C.8.. C. 8., C.M.G., D. 5.0.. who is visiting New Zealand in an advisory capacity on military organisation and training, arrived in Ounedin last night. He is accompanied by Brigadier O. H. Mead, C.8.E.. D. 5.0.. N.Z.S.C., and Lieutenant D. Crosslcy. A.D.C. to Sir Guy. On his journey south yesterdsy General Williams inspected "B" Company, 4th Battalion. National Military Reserve, which was carrying out tactical exercises at Waikouaiti, At the conclusion of the exercises ho addressed the men. General Williams will return north to-morrow.

PRAISE FOR BURNHAM CAMP FUTURE OF TERRITORIAL FORCE (Special) CHRISTCHURCH, June 14. " Both as an army .camp and .as a military training centre,, . Burnham compares very well with similar establishments in England," said Lieutenant-general Sir Guy Williams in an interview after his inspection of the camp. In the brief time he had had to see them, New Zealand territorials seemed about the same as territorials in England, although those at Home had probably had a much • more intensive programme of training. General Williams said. When they had the same equipment with which to train. New Zealand territorials promised to make as good soldiers as their colleagues in England. The provision of equipment for territorial training must take second place to the provision of equipment needed for actual theatres of war. he said, but the position was all the time improving—although it naturally took longer for equipment to reach New Zealand. But there was enough here to train the men now, and the promise for both the future of the force and its equipment was good. The 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force could not have played a more magnificent part in the war, General Williams said. The work of its members had shown the value of the additional intensive training they had received in Egypt. They had done well in some of the hardest fighting the war had seen. General Williams emphasised the value of the experience which could be imparted to troops now in training by men who had taken part in the overseas campaigns. The fast pace at which war moved now made it necessary for the lessons learned in each new sphere of battle to be immediately applied to training methods.