SIR IAN HAMILTON.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 14307, 1 June 1914, Page 3

SIR IAN HAMILTON.

FAVOURS COMPULSORY TRAINING OF CADETS. (Per United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, May 30. ... An important statement, regarding, cadet training was made by Sir lan Ha;milteSlto an interviewer. The (j'eneral was asked.; “You are opposed to compulsory military training in England,,as applied; „• to. adults. What have you to. s.ay of cadet training in Australia aitd New Zealand?■ I. Would you advocate it for England?” ‘’Yes, warmly, in 1 full coniiideration Llitm !- I Wits doing a patriotic act,” replied Sir .Lin. , “Ono of. the main Objections to compulsion disappears entirely’’ in the case of cadets who are, and haye been since .- the- days of Solomon, subject tb Compulsion,;; When I say that, I hlean compelled to go to school and go forth.” • Trio-General is also, an advocate of - the ...bUll’s-eye target shooting , for the earlier training of recruits, as. affording a sound .. grounding before entering on the figure, target course. Asked as to what he thought of the rifle; clubs in New Zealand, apart frou. , what he might say in liis, report. General Hamilton said he had seen very little of them. “The men of the, r.lfile clubs I have seen,” he stated;, “are three-fourths of them fid! of.'lifc and vigoup, and tfppld no doubt prove most yajfiable ; ...as\thh second line, or reserve of the active army.”