London, June 1.
Certain of the Army training mannals are being revised with the obect of simplifying and shortening hem, The re-arrangement will take the following form:
(a) The present Field Service Regulations, Volume IL, will be divided Into two volumes. The new Volume will dear comprehensively with the tactics of all arms in co-opera tion, and will include a considerable portion of the subject matter of the present volume. together with certain portions of the training manuals of the various The of Ceremonial which will be common to the whole Army: at present this 4s included separately in the training, manuals for each arm.
(e). Elementary drill, which largely common to all arms, will be similarly dealt with in a new "Mantual of Elementary Drift (All Arms):" which will be widely distributed amongst the junior non-commissioned officers and will deal in addition with subjects such as Elementary March Discipline, which must be widely known.
The reduction in the length the manuals of the various arms thus affected will permit of the "Training" and "War" portions, which are now separate volumes, being amalgamated {in the case of each arm.
Ale Defence of Londor The display at Olympia of antly alroratt defence against a bombing attack has been the making of this year's Royal Tournament, and it effects, every city, Bombay, Shanghai, Melbourne, and the rest, The history of the defence of London against Attacks from the air commences with the outbreak of the Great War. At the commencement of the war the only anti-aircraft defence in London one pounder pompom on the and when the first Zeppelin raid on London took place on May 31, 1915, the total ALA. armament of London consisted. of four six pounder Hotchkiss guns, six one pounder pompous and two-inch naval guns. This armament grew during the war until finally a far~ eaching lay-out of A.A. guns and searchlights and an elaborate system conimunication was established.
During the early period of the war the chief danger lay in attacks by Zeppelins; this was followed by day-slight aeroplane attacks and later by aeroplane attacks by night. On uly 31, 1917, all the defences, consisting A. guns, searchlights and communications and. aeroplanes, were combined under one command calico, London Air Defence Area. This organization was so successful that the enemy abandoned air attacks on London before the end of the war.
In the general reductions which took place on the concius'va of the war the anti-aircraft defences were abolished, and London lay undefended. against air-attacks for some years. In 1025 the Air Defence of Great Britain was established under the Air Ministry. This organization combines the defence in the air by means of aeroplanes and tha da tence from the ground by means of Territorial Army units of A. A. guns, searchlights a signals.
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