Training is designed to moot peculiar local conditions, particularly a8 regards quick shooting and physi cal training. 'The day's work follows:—Three hours' school; hours' drill; and one and a. hale hour' physical trai One hour's musketry a day is substituted for drill for three weeks toward the end of the course.
Every aman on leaving the Depot provided with a police manual in Chinese and English which contains instructions to meet all probable situations, focal regulations ant police orders, ete. The school work consists in the teacher going riighb through this ook, explaining alt doubt fe! joints, while tie recruits copy the whole into their own note books, which are cheeked from time to tine. This routine is varied by lectures given by Chinese Inspectoms and Sub-Inspectors, Recruits mist pass out in arms drill, squad drill, bayonet exercises and riot drill, The Martini-Metford carbine is used for arms drill, with English warls of command. They have a good idea of time. and drill very well Daily physical training consists of half an hour first thing inthe ening for Swedish drill and Me dian clubs, and one hour last thing.
the afternoon at rough games of all descriptions. These games. inde competitive between squads of twenty to thirty men each, Toa squads play against each other in every game each day. When all have competed against each other, the one with most wins is given halt-holiday. This makes considerable keenness and consequent satis factory physical development, 'The Chinese have no vigorins games of their own; and so. though many men are strong, they are nearly all clumsy. 'The games ave of all sorts, caleulaied to. remedy' this defect.
Running and jumping hurdles docs much to make them more agile, Medicine ball "raghy" has only two rales: one must not Kick the ball, and to score a geal the ball riusb foe carried in the hands between the posts; with these limitations, one may do anything one likes to asaiat
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