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“THE OMINECA MINER, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1915

~The Omineca Miner

. PUBLISHED. EVERY SATURDAY AT HAZELTON, .THE CENTER OF THE
~ GREAT OmINECA. DisTRICT OF BRITISH COLUMBIA.”

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‘VoL. V. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1916... ot

We believe the time is not‘far distant when the question of
universal military training will become a live issue.in Canada, and
we are confident. that the people of the Dominion will declare
themselves in favor of some such system as that which has proven
so successful in Australia and New Zealand,

Four years ago our Antipodean cousins adopted the method
recommended by Lord Kitchener, who visited the country at their
request, and the record of the Anzac treops speaks volumes for ‘the
practicability and success of their system of defence. With a view

to defending the Commonwealth and Dominion in time of need,
every boy and young man is required to take the prescribed course
of.training, which does not, however,interfere to any serious extent
with his ordinary, occupation,- Unless he enlists in the regular
forees, the citizen soldier is not liable for service beyond the limits
of the ‘Commonwealth or Dominion, and the troops now serving § at
the front are all! willing volunteers. met

' Briefly,it may be said that the training of the soldier i is divided
into three periods, Boys from twelve to fourteen are en rolled as
junior cadets, youths from fourteen. to eighteen: as_ senior -eadets,
and young men from eighteen to twenty-six as citizen: soldiers,
Parents are held responsible for the attendance at’ schools and
training camps of boys of the cadet age, and heavy penalties are
imposed upon employers who may seek {0 prevent the older. youths

from attending to their military duties or cause them to suffer in
pocket ior the service the state requires.

Junior cadets train one hundred and twenty days. every year, not
less than fifteen minutes each day, at the schools they attend. They
learn to march in squads, to load and shoot a small rifle, to knaw
safety rules, to swim and rescue the drowning, to run and cofserve
their wind, They are éncouraged to play fames, especially those
that require quick thinking, such as “cticket, football and baseball.
Senioreadets are organized into companies and battalions,’ commanded
by officers drafted from the citizen forees, Each’ of the four years
of the senior cadet training period must.include four. day drills. of
four hours continuous duration, twelve half-day drills of two hours
and: twenty-four night drills of one hour.

a cadet rifle.
range practice; instructed i in the care and” repair. of arms and in
elementary company and battalion maneuvers: Promotion i is won
by general efficiency, supplemented by competitive: ‘examinations,

After eighteen the youth ‘becomes a citizen soldier. . He ig

liable’ to be called to: ‘the colors in war time, and whether he is

assigned, by his own choice, to the permanent or the’ citizen forced,
he must until twenty-six train each year for the equivalent of |&
‘sixteen whole day drills (in the infantry), of which not teas than
eight must.be.in camps of continuous training. “Engineers, artillery
; and cavalry train twenty-five days annually, beventeen in camps: of
continuous training.

The training of the citizen soldier eightden and over is thorough,

In the instruction camps .he learns to ‘dig’ ‘trenches, mine and.
counter-mine; construct field’. ‘telephone systems, | build’ ‘bridges,
handle artillery, attaek in extended and: close order, tuke. advantage
of protective cover. from both infantry ‘and artillery fire,

‘Maneuver it in large bodies,» ; After twenty-six the obligatio

oftenet than one day each’ ‘year ceases. He joing’ ‘the: riflerelab of |:

his training’ ‘area and contirues target’ practice until: hei is thirty-Ave; |'

viv: Gehoo}s- for, officers. ‘are ‘maintained i in each  of'th six m1
; districts, and 8,000: young: men are. reeeiving’ Intrusion ni
, Here,. ag in, the cadet: schiools,

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The: state furnishes the|.
Senior cadet with a uniform every two years, and equips him with]
He is put through squad drills, semaphore drills and| °

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In THE SuPREME Count oF » BRITISH |
COLUMBIA, .

In “the | matter of the ‘Adininietration | aes
Act and in the matter of- the Es-||}<"°
tate of Frank Willimaki, alias Frank

Hill, deceased, intestate: eer

TAKE ‘NOTICE that by an “order of |

His’ Honour Judge Young, ‘dated

the 15th day of December, :1915, 1 was | .
diministrator ‘of the Estate |.

pointed
rank Willimaki, aliag Frank. Hill,
deceased, intestate, .

All parson having « claims against |
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the said Estate are, hereby  Pequeated
to forward the same, properly verified,

tome, before the 2rd day-'o January, =

1916, ‘and. all persona” indebte

the ‘said’ -Eatate ‘are: -requirad, ted vee

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me forthwith.

~ Dated aot Deetiiber, 1915.00"

- STEPHEN -H. HOSKINS;

178° -Hazelton, B, &

~ Canada in ‘the Lead

Official Administrator. :

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