SIR FREDERICK ROBERTS ON MILITARY EFFICIENCY.
Extract from a speech by Sir Frederick Roberts at Mansion House, London, with reference to obtaining increased efficiency in the British army.
1. That every cavalry aud infantry soldier should shoot well.
2. That the artillery should be pro vided with the best guns that can be manufactured for horse, field and garri son work, and that its equipment should bo thoroughly good.
3. That a reserve of suitable horses should be available to mount the artillery and cavalry at the strength to which they would have to be increased in time of war, and for the additional guns it would be necessary to put in the field. 4. That the non-combatant depart ments should be so organised as to admit of expansion rapidly and economically.
5. That we should maiutain on a war footing at least so much transport as would serve to carry the first reserve of infantry ammunition, and although we could not afford to keep up sufficient transport for all eventualities, we should determine before-hand the description of carriage most suitable to the countries in which operations might have been car ried on, and decide upon the localities from which the amount we might re quire, could be most cxpeditou-sly pro cured.
AMUSING LETTER BY A WOULD BE SUICIDE.
