Cornwall obtains that ran! has, therefore, twenty ye him og a General Officer. This is an unusually early age and a foretaste of what, the War Office mean to do I the. future.
He was Brigade Major RA. in the Shaforce and in North China, and owes his early promotion to the grant of War brevets, "He was tache at Berlin on leaving Shanghai and told us a thing or two about the new regime.
"About the time this letter is printed Colonel Erie Skaife will "have Taken up the appointment of military: attache in Moscow. He was. twice in Russia on leave before the War and was a prisoner in Germany with Russian fers, who pol up hig language so well that on Tease he passed as first-class Inter-prefer in Russian, He knows the For East well.
It-Colonel F, Witts, RE, who was with the Shaforce Staff "and also commanded the 60th Field Company in Shanghai, Is to be Chief of Staff, Sih Division at Catterick, His ap: pointment as G.8.01. follows many posts for RE, oticers recently.
Lieutenant A. G. W. Jolliffe, Royal Berkshire Regiment, has gone to Malaya as adjutant of the FINS. Volunteer' Force (Selangor and Pa hang Battalions)
Major-General Luard, who retired in 1929 after he had commanded in South China, has left the Reserve on attaining the age of 67.
The Shanghai Cup Flying OMleer C. Bunch won the Shanghai Cup on September 1G at There is a general acceptance at hone that the concentration of machine guns into the Support Battal-Jon of the experimental 6th Infan'ry Brigade will provide better tactical balance by being in the hands of 4 Battalion Commander, instead of a harassed Brigade machine gun offer.
It ig also agreed that three rife battalions per Brigade, supported by fourth of machine guns, is a more' handy fighting formation, The reduction fo three sections meets with favour, especially as all platoons will receive the same training and be ip uniformity. Tu this we have followed Continental methods.
1 anticipate that the new organiza~ tion will mean a reduction of twenty. per cent. in rifle strength, but this 1s compensated for by an increase from 24 light machine guns per rifle bat. tation to 48. A. reduction in the number of Vickers guns to 30 in the Support Battalion has its set-off in fully equipped anti-tank Company. The question of mobility has aot been settled, except that all tran: port will be mechanized, and this implies kus carriage for the riflemen New given a ime limit in which to claim ile honours for old campaigns, appears to be necessary for the auth-rites te observe two points in coming to decisions.
One is that some old campaigns of many battles were honoured with only' a single scroll for the whole campaign, and regiments engaged fare badly in comparison with later wars which had honours awarded for battles. The other point Is that there was formerly a reluctance to grant scrolls for colours in the case of, gallant defeats, and that in the Great War unsuccessful actions were commemorate, Now in regard to single scroll campaign honours there is the case of "Mysore" of 1789-02. 'The struggle lasted 2% years -and included the battles at Bangalore, Seringspatam and Nundy Droog. 'The latter was awarded to a Madras regiment by India, but the 36th @nd Woreestershire' at Shanghai). end Fist were not given this battle honour by the home authorities. Cases can be made out
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