The Winslow mail., 1914-09-12

and be the main portion Of the army
There were cavalry forces (horse sol
diers), having a ratio to the infantry
that had been determined by the ex-
periences of the FIanco-German war in
1871. There was also artillery, and
for some unexplained reason much OF
this was still drawn by horses. though
there were also in all the European
armies small number of motor guns
with wheels so constructed that they
could go over broken ground In adj
dition there We're large developments
Of the engineering arm, concerned With
motor transport, motor bicycles scout
ing, aviation and the like.
No first class intelligence had been
sought to specialize in and work out
the problems of warfare with the new
appliances and under modern condi
tions. but o succession of able iurists
Lord Haldane, Chief Justice Briggs
ana that very able Kings Counsel
Philbricl-had reconstructed the army
frequently and thoroughly and placed
it at last, with the adoption.o of national
service. upon a footing that would
have seemed very imposing to the pub
lie of 1900 At any moment the
British empire could now put 1850,
1000 arguabIe soldiers upon the board
Of welt-polftik The traditions of
Japan and the central European ar
mics were more pPincely and less TO
rensic, the Chinese still refused resO
uteIy to become a military power and
maintained small Standing army
upon the American model that was
| said so far as it went to be highly eff
cient, and Russia. secured by q strin-
gent administration against internal
criticism, had scarcely altered the de
sign of uniform or the organization
of a battery since the opening decades
Of the century. Barnets opinion Of his
military training was manifestly
poor one. His modern state ideas dis
posed him to regard it as a bore and
! his common sense condemned it as use
less. Moreover. his habit of body
made him peculiarly sensitive to the
! fatigues and hardships Of service.
For three days in succession we
/ turned out before dawn-and for no
earthly reason-without breakfast" he
1relates. 81 suppose that is to show US
that when the day comes the first thing
will be to get lis thoroughly uncom
/ Portable and rotten. We then proceed
ed to Kriegspiel according to the mys-
terious ideas Of those in authority over
Ius On the last day we spent three
i hours under a hot, if early, sun getting
over eight miles of country to a point
/ we could have reached in a motor ON
nibus in nine minutes and a half--I did
+ it the next day in that-and then we
made a massed attack upon entrench-
ments that could have shot us all about
three times over if only the umpires
had let them. Then came a little bay
onet exercise, but I doubt if | am suf
ficienty a barbarian to stick this long
knife into anything living. Anyhow, i'm
this battle I shouldn't have q chance.
4 Assuming that by some miracle ]
hadn't been shot three times over I
was far too hot and blown when I got
up TO the entertainments even to lift
my beastly rife. Il was those others
would have begun the sticking
'I'or q time we were watched by two
hostile aeroplanos; then our own came
up and asked them not 10 and-the
practice of aerial warfare still being
unknown-they very politely desisted
and went away and did dives and cir
cles of the most charming description
over the Fox hills"
Al Barnets accounts Of his military
training were written i'm the same half
contemptuous half protesting tone. lie
was Of opinion that his chances Of
participating in any real warfare were
very slight and that if after all he
should participate, it was bound to be
SO entirely different from these peace
maneuvers that his only course as a
rational man would be to keep MS OBJ
servantIy out of danger as he could
until he had learned the tricks and pos
eihi}ties Of the rev conditions lie
states thus quite frankly Never was
"a man more free from sham heraics.
Harnot welcomed the appearance Of
the atomic engine with the zest OF
masculine youth in al fresh machinery,
and it is evident that for some time
he failed to connect the rush of Won
Gerful new possibilities with the fBan-
cial troubles of his family. 81 knew
my father was worried. he admits
That east the smallest of shadpws
upon his daliahtod departure for Italy
and Greece and Egypt with three CON