Kitchener Camps.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14141, 26 February 1910, Page 3 (Supplement)

Kitchener Camps.

a. VICTORIAN REPORT. Without waiting for Lord Kitchener's report the District Commandant of Viotoria, Colonel Stanley, made public some criticisms of his own on the Sevmour camp. His report notes, as to the Seymour exercises/ that this was the first occasion upon which complete brigades have been organised and exercased in combined operations in has been made clear," says the commandant, "that a great amount of internal organisation remains to be done before the brigades can be considered to have reached the 'necessary standard to enable thenr to work smoothly as complete, ,s=elfrcontained units." At-" tentipn is also drawn to the need of orcanismg the brigade staffs. ' J"- f 031160 * 10 * with the promulgation of orders, the comment i<* made—"As a rnle -this was not only slow, hut also* ineffective. „ ~ "One- of defects observed during the manoeuvres," tho report proceeds, J>as the ' almost total absence K« any endeavour to instruct junior ranks in %he nature of the exe'r- 1 cise or role of, the several units and detfttchments taking part." i m Intercoirimuuication^of' the c jer&fc. I is,de.scribed'iis having'shown . room forf great/ improvement. -"There-I was'a-s-fiilure to -observe strictly s°r--| no order** .w>«Spno excention "brigade'! iTOwe^Jor'VeV??V Vl- I together mining JH-p .principal de- "■"'■= in tnrb"al t<>

a F' se fr° m the absence of a well-con-sidered appreciation of the -position, llie artillery, on the whole, was well handled. "March formations, distances, pace, halts, and' discipline/-'- it is stated leave much to be desired, though a decided improvement was observable towards the conclusion of the exer+iS6Si'oxi - ,' An aver age pace both on tho 12th and 14th of 2* miles per hour »Jt i movem ent of the brigade, as a whole »• eloquent of the result of negdecfc, withm the units of the pre- £^£ ns necessar y to: ensure efficietfb march movement." s^ akin ?' * 6 combined Si £ aS^ U camed ou V but the Iv a 2? h ? g , was fault y> ParticularS f ° r ■•%. c °*siderable time in MW, er wltiOT t scout protection. Many company officers did" not appear sroimd 6 „ a T red * fa""**© of the to ? «£' £ d f ome . companies advanced scouts Thf k wlthoilt throwing out up of' tZ T- W&a T n ° ge " neral Bowing up of the firing line, and no proper use_of covering fire. P ™ ecraomt of A° Und With ' *» ' Sf the camp, owing to lack of organisation and experience A special note is made of the number of We* sa| r S g b!fT T e > cks > whU° r saddled k£ S6 } y dn f to ■™™itable r C AiS