The Sentinel=record., 1914-10-04
SOLDIERS NEVER
 HANDLED A GUN
SIR ARCHIBALD HUNTER WILL HAVE UNUSUAL FORCE OF
 ROCKIES IN THE WAR
One of the Basis Rules of Training This Formation Is Tramp of Eff teen Miles Each Day.

AluefShot, oct. 3.-Lieutenant Gen eral Sir Archibald Hunter is in charge of 100000 Aldershot rockies" nine tenths of whom never handed a gun. When this army goes to the continent if it does go, he will doubtless be in command of it.
 In ordinary time of peace 30,000 men are as big a force as the barracks at Aldershot are strained to accommo- date. Now most of this army is liv- ing in bell tents" although long rows of wooden huts are already under con struction and will be completed be- fore this army or any part of it leaves Aidershot, and then if the war lasts at least 100000 more men will take it's place.
 The camps at Aldershot spread over the plains throughout an area at least five miles square. Almost every branch of service is represented. even the Aviation Corps, forty bi planes and mono-planes being in the service at North Camp. In London the cry is for more recruits. At Al dershot the cry is for more non-com- missioned officers to act as drill mas ters. Even those on pension are re- ceiving regular pay, as well as their pension if they will help train the recruits. There are often 200 men un- der one "non-com." and the commits stoned officers apparently do not take any personal part in the drilling of re- cruits.
 The recruits at Aldershot are com fortably housed and well fed, what ever complaints to the contrary may appear in the Lo1GJn papers. Each man receives three-quarters pounds of beef daily, and of ten men who were personally asked about the com misary by the writer every man cor dially stated that he was perfectly sat isfied with what he had to eat.
 In the rush of the first enlistment many were taken on with rather su- perficial examiation and now are be. ing weeded out. For example. an ot- ficer with 200 men from Glasgow came to London on the same train with the writer. The men had all failed on eye tests, and the officers assignment was to pilot the Scotchmen to Lon don and to get them aboard a train for Scotland. not an altogether easy job. It was jokinely explained that the Scotch surgeons received half crown for every man they passed for enlistment.
 The recruits are earnest and are worked very hard One basic prin- ciple of the training seems to be the order that every man shall walk at least fifteen miles daily. Since a large proportion of the recruits come from offices and other indoor employ ment this alone Is weary process. Very few of the men have any desire to knock about the footballs which are provided for recreation and the six moving picture shows or "cinemas" as they are called here, are not all crowd ed. The pubs" close in Aldershot at eight each evening and by nine o. clock the town is as quiet as any ru- ral village.
 As for the immense amount of de- tail necessary to equip the troops that are now being raised in England. some idea of the undertaking may be gleaned from two acquisitions issued by the war office yesterday the first for one million and half of blankets, the second for five hundred thousand razors. Evidently the British soldier is expected to shave himself, instead