"I managed to got in some real hard tennis during our wordertul summer which was one of the finest his generation has experienced, and now Tam taking up table tennis again pretty seriously with the A. Club, Shall probably try my hard at Bad: minton as soon as the opportunity presents itself—this club is ex= tremely popular and although we fave five splendid courts, vacancies are very limited, 1 think' this is all the news I have for the moment except that I know sou will be pleased te learn that Tam keeping very. despite the lo=g hours and keeping to it-for so many months—of course cur slogan is "GO TO IT"....and we do, Malaya School for Training Officers Shenghai, Jan, 19.
Malaya has completed training its first batch of officers for the regular army. This month the second group, Including several volunteers " from Shanghat and 'Tientsin, will be hard. at work in the newly created Omcers' Cadet Training Unit, which has added its quota to British military history east of India, The frst school was limited to regular soldiers. Those who attended comprised warrant and non-commissioned affeers, whose service records varied from four to eighteen years, and "who were recommended. by their respective commanding fieers for the course, None of those who had enlisted in Shanghai was }ineluded, for they all had their throe months of probation in the ranks to undergo fr Drawn from many regiments and corps, 39 out of 30 cadets recently passed out from ACTU, ay everyone knows it now, and have been commissioned, Some have been posted their own' regiments, some. to others. Some, have been' given. the rank of second lieutenant and others that of lieutenant, depending their previous service in the ranks, "Somewhere in Malaya"
Dropping their badges of rank, the cadets, neither tommies nor oflcers, settled down quickly Inst September to the three months' course in their special camp among the coconut palms and rubber trees "somewhere in Malaya." Their instructors, five officers and 26 warrant officers and N.CO's drawn from as many forma-tons as themselves, put them through courses which included a variety of subjects, The instructors are known 38 the permanent stall, Malaya's ACTU is divided into two wings: artillery (with coast defence and anti-aircraft' branches) and infantry. The subjects taught at the schoo! include gunnery, artillery and weapon training, field engineer, ing, tactless, organisation, administation, army law, drill, physical" trains: ing, antlegas training, maporeading and mechanical transport, Towards the end of the course just concluded, cadets were taken out for a ay-camp for intensive "tewt. tactical exercises without troops—and at other times they went out on. ight exercises, with the infantry oF artillery, according to their "wings,"
'The cadets rise at 545 am, 'Their hours of work at the first' school were from 615 am. to 1216. p.m. another two hours after tim, and a session from 6 to 8 pam, except on three days a week, when: work ended 12.18 pin, and' the afternoon and evening were free for recreation.
200 Officers Each Year present constituted, the Malaya ACTU can train 60 cadets at a time, and an average of 200 emeers a year can be produced, It run on lines similar to those now operation in Britain and India, Entry to ACTU is at present restricted to serving regular soldiers, civilians cannot be accepted candidates. Those who volunteered for service at the Shanghai recruit. ing office and who came to "Ranks, Malaya" ug selected candidates. for 'ACTU will therefore go to the unit, after they have satisfied their present commanding officers that they are suitable, as serving soldiers, Due ceremony marked the cons clusion "of the first school. 'The General OMcer Commanding, Nfalaya, (lent-Gen, L, V. Bond), tool the salute" at "a" special passing - out parade, which was attended by many highly' interested. seolor oMers Indian C.-in-C. Arrives New Delhi New Delhi, Jan, 24, General CJ.B. Auchinleck, the new Commander-in-Chief in India, "are rived today, ud will assume com= mand of the Indian Army on Jan,
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