The autumn training of the Army will take place in Wiltshire and the force will be as follows:—
The dock will take the largest battle ship afloat and as the fuel will be all and not coal the reservoirs will hold a million tons, have cost a mil-Yon to build and are finished. The new military station will be at Chang! on the eastern seaboard of the island and the aerodrome at Seletar is on the north of the island. The dockyard Wes west of the aerodrome in the channel separating island and main-Tand, The new Gibraltar covers the Straits which connect the Indian and Pacific seas on the Calcutta, Rangoon, Madras, Singapore, Australia route. The guns will be most powerful and a German service Journal speaks of 18 Inch but the type of armament and where it will be placed is not a matter for broadcasting. The Ger-who want to fly the flag in the
1d_Keep on. guessing at much interested in the Pacific Fleet, of the military garrison and the number of alr squadrons to be stationed thers These things, except in the rough, a not settled oF the point whether India will furnish part of the garrison, oF China link with the Base, Malaya Progress Malaya will have a larger this year with 2,922 of all ranks. in place of 1,611, one more heavy battery and a new Anti-Aireratt Brigade, The gunners will have five instead of three batteries and 632. more men. The sappers will double their strength to 125 and other corps Increase a little, The Blakan Matl water supply will be made em cient at once and new quarters will be built at Tanglin and Fort Canning.
The new Anti-Aircraft Brigade for Singapore has been formed at Gosport during April and will be num-dered the 3rd. Tt will be stationed in the Singapore defences and will comprise H.Q, and the 7h and ith Batteries. The 7th is already Singapore and the lith is being rais-fed to go out. This will increase the the ing the 7th at Sing general number of batteries to eleven,
ore, 8th at Peshawar, 9th at Boni Kong, 10th at Malta and ith for Singapore. On May 1 four Fortress Companies R.E, disappear by absorption into the 4th Company, the axed units being the 3rd, 35th, 39th and 49th, The Aberdeen and Dundee Fortress Engineers became _antiaircraft searchlight companies during April and the Tynemouth, Forth, Clyde and North Scottish Heavy Batteries become medium artillery. All these changes are under the coast defence reorganization from the Trish Channel to the China Sea, Ist Cavalry Brigade Brig. Bullock Marsham ud Cavalry Brigade... Brig. Hurndall ist Division Maj. Gen. Kennedy 3rd Division J. Gen. Pite-Taylor oath Brigade, 7. A.
"Gol, Sleeman Ist Tank Brigade......[Brig. Hobert Aldershot Commander 'Gen. Sir Francis Gathorne-Hardy Southern' Commander Director Gen, Sir Archibald Gen. Sir John Burnett-stuart Brig. Hobart was made permanent commander on April. 24
The 2né, 4th and Sth Divisions will be trained locally by Maj. Gens. Jackson, MeCullock and Howard. The tanks brigade will be made up of the existing mixed battalions and a new formation, the Ist Light Tank Battalion., The name of the operations which the C.1G.S. will direct is "A War OMice Exercise" employing 10,000 men on each side and all latest tactical devices, the Vickers Berthier gun, Skoda gun, tanks, mor-batteries, armoured cars, wireless, new tractors, model bridging, and aircraft, The Territorial " Infantry Brigade selected to join the Regulars in September intends to emulate John Brown's East Midland Brigade which: did so well in the 1925 manoeuvres. The South Wales battalion at Hongkong will be glad to know that the South Wales Brigade, which is selected, is the second strongest in the county with the battalions standing as follows out of an establishment of 20 officers and 589 other ranks "dh Carmarthen Sth Glamorgan th Glamorgan 4th KS 'The brigade can march and shoot: and has won 'T.A. rifle and machine gun championships, young soldiers. championships, the'. A. aggregate for all shooting and the Army Rifle Association aggregate cup twice.
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