DEFENCE OF SOUTH AFRICA
LONDON, June 4.
The Daily Mail's Johannesburg correspondent states that it is undecided whether Lord Kitchener or General French will draw up the scheme of universal military training which the Union Government is discussing. It includes schoolboys from 10 to 15 joining as junior Cadets, and of from 15 to 18 enrolling as senior Cadets, and undergoing an annual camp training. Men from 18 to 25 will be trained in the fashion of the Regulars, including a fortnight's camp, and Reservists (25 to 35) will take part in a week's annual camp. There will be a military college, at Bloemfontein.
The whole scheme has been attuned with the British scheme enabling South Africa to take ■ part in General Imperial defence.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2934, 8 June 1910, Page 27
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