The military needs of Great Britain.

  • Brunton, Thomas Lauder, Sir, 1844-1916.
Date:
1903
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Credit: The military needs of Great Britain. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Amongst the English De Wet himself counted two hundred and three dead and wounded, and eight hundred and seventeen prisoners. The Boers also seized two Maxims and two mountain guns, a thousand rifles, and twenty cases of cartridges. In tliis engagement the losses of the English correspond to one man killed or wounded by every Boer, while the Boer losses are less than one killed or wounded to every hundred Englishmen, who were firing at them without intermission for five hours. Such a tiling is almost incredible, and certainly if the English had been trained like the Boers it would have been absolutely impossible. Several similar instances might be taken from 1 >e Wet’s book, and prove most conclusively the truth of what you say at the conclusion of your article: “ Let every citizen realise that he has a personal duty to perform. At the very least it is his business to learn to shoot with a rifle and to help others to do the same.”—I am. Sir, &c., Lauder Brunton. [Sir Lauder Brunton’s support of the cause of “ compulsory physical training of a military kind ” for all boys is of the utmost value. If he and his colleagues among our leading medical men would only exert their influence and authority in regard to the liygienic aspects of the case, a great effect would be produced. His exposure of the hollowness of the parrot-cry of “ militarism” is most useful.—Ed. Spectator.'] U.^HHisoN & So^s, Printers in Ordinary to His Majesty, St. Martin’s Lane.