Word: britisher
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...England's Irish question. In the present crisis it has assumed so serious a character that it present a direct obstacle to a successful prosecution of the war. Conscription and home rule are inseparably bound up with racial and political prejudice. They involve the danger of great discord in British unity. They must be looked upon in two lights, that of justice and that of expediency...
...probably now to be drafted on reaching twenty-one, the Government will be taking time by the forelock. We hope, however, that the plan will stop there and not be carried into the high and grammar schools. In this connection it is interesting to note that the British Government, despite the strain upon it, has definitely and finally refused to allow military training in its schools. Replying to a deputation of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain, the President of the Board of Education declared that he was with them in their position, and had "no intention of allowing anything...
...trenches, grenade fields and all other facilities of the cantonment. The Chief of Staff and commandant of the O. T. C. at Camp Devens have assisted in furthering the plans for the corps' summer work by assuring the Military Office that they will supply officers of the French and British Military Missions, as well as American officers, to lecture before the corps and give demonstrations. It is possible that the regiment may march from its barracks in the Freshman dormitories to the camp site, where it is expected that the men will be quartered in wall tents...
Yesterday afternoon Colonel Applin, who is a member of the British Military Mission to the United States, viewed the close-order work of the Regiment, after arriving too late to see the combat exercise. His chief criticism of the corps, whose work in the field exercise was praised by Lieutenant Morize, was that in the close-order tactics the men showed a woeful lack of that "punch" needed to carry field work through to a successful finish under adverse conditions in real warfare...
...They will stay at the cantonment until the end of May. One half of this quota will specialize in the grenade instruction, which is to be given by Lieutenant Mallet of the French Military Mission, and the other men will concentrate upon bayonet exercises under Captain Goodday, of the British Mission. All of the men will receive training in the Hebert system of physical training. The corps will pay for their subsistence, since they are in reality members of the University R. O. T. C. on detached duty...