MORE INFANTRY NEEDED.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14871, 20 September 1918, Page 5

MORE INFANTRY NEEDED.

COLONEL itEBiNGTON'S WARNING

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association)

London, SeptriS:

Colonel Repiiigtcn, after visiting the British front, warns the War Cabinet against relying on artillery, aviators, and tanks. These auxiliary services 1, lie says, are wonderful, but it is infantry which forms and holds positions. Jt'ia essential that drafts should be received to enable the infantry to be properly, rested and trained. It was not tanks that won the battle oa August Bth. It- was the grand Dominion infantry which attacked with the firm intention of succeeding. No tanks shone in the supremely wonderful adventure of the Australians in the night surprise at Mont. St. Quentin. The way to ruin the infantry is to teach thorn to wait for someone else to do their job. The way to ruin the army is for a badly advised Government not to keep the infantry units up to strength.