The Home Guard

Waikato Times, Volume 129, Issue 21599, 9 December 1941, Page 2

The Home Guard

\ ! | Conducted by Ajax.

Parade Time The next general parade of the unit will be held at Rugby Park on Sunday next, December 14, at 8.55 a.m. sharp Unit's Bandmaster i The conductor of the unit's band, the Hamilton Citizens' Band, Mr J. Hardiman. has & great record in band contests in j England. As a member of the Aberdare Volunteer Band for 30 years and conduc- ; tor for many years before leaving for New Zealand, he was conductor for seven big contests, ‘he band securing four firsts, two seconds and a third on those seven oc- ! Tank Smashers Part of the Regular Red Army is a body of thousands of picked men known as “tank-smashers." Their training has been based on a study of the German tanks and of methods employed against them both ; in this war and the Spanish civil war. They use Loth special grenades and " firebottles ” —apparently a version of the Molotov cocktail. One unit, commanded !by Lieut. Ryzhukhin, has destroyed 60 enemy tanks with such weapons in three weeks. Propaganda among the enemy troops is another weapon the Russians are j using with great skill and success. Home Guard Exercises in England j Home Guards numbering a million were on duty in England, Scotland and Wales recently in the biggest invasion exercises j yet held. One oi the incidents in the exercise was an attack on the City of London by a crack Canadian regiment. Be- : sides their rities and bayonets, they had Bren carriers, smoke-screens, Tommy : guns, hanct grenades, and many other i weapons to help them. Their objective was the City's largest telephone exchange, which was defended by a battalion of Post Oilice Home Guards. _