The enlistment age for the Army is now 17% years. A boy on reaching this age begins man's service. The exceptions are apprentices, tailors, buglers and trumpeters of the Royal Engineers and Royal Corps of Signals.
Many officers are making an early return to India from home. Maj-Gen. Hon. Percy Scarlett will be at Bolaraar, on September 17, and Maj.- Gen. Strettell reaches Peshawar about the same time.
Army manœuvres cut small ice but I must refer to the excellence of the training this summer. Some of the brigade schemes were ultra-modern. There was a China scene, a Palestine round-up and am attack on Danzig (HulD. The British Field Force is Al and a most powerful instrument.
The Army manceuvres were based on England being at war with Yorkshire and Scotland. England mobile ized in Hampshire and sent the Ist Army Corps on a northward march. The Yorkshire force met it in the East Riding with the 5th Division and parts of the Northumbrian and West Riding Divisions. The Scottish force landed on the Yorkshire coast.
General Lord Gort directed and his H.@. were at Scarborough. The leaders concerned were Generals Ironside Kirke, Dill, Wavell; Williams, Bartholomew, Grant and Haining.
Appointments of interest to China are:—Major Skinner, 19th Hyderabad Regt. as Deputy Director of Movements, Major James to command the 4/6 Rajputana Rifles and Major Aird-
-chi fought the Japanese in the Smith to be second in command.
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