OFFICERS—AND OFFICERS.
Just now they are dealing drastically with incompetent officers m the new armies— quietly and r.one the less ruthlessly, the Daily Sketch" states. . .. » Medical boards are -sitting on. many officers, and " voluntary ' resignations on such pleas as ill-health are) becoming matters <rf everyday occurrence. Confidential reports m precise and unequivocal terns' on every officer are being required from colonels and brigadiers. ± , . Here is one incident, typical or many. The other day a staff officer complained to ft subaltern that his mora -were making too much noise on a route march. He received what his general described afterwards as a "truly astonishing" reply: "'I have to.d the men to st-on talking several times. The days of "that subaltern —as an officer—are numbered. His place is to bo taken by a subaltern who will give orders once, only once, and once for all.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 11504, 28 September 1915, Page 1
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