MILITIAMEN LEARN THEIR JOBS

The pencil of light fell on the hedge. The
instructor chose another object.

'Right. . . . Half-past four. Range: twelve
hundred yards. . . . West edge of the beetroot
field____Fire!'

Such is the first course.

Shadow-chasing
We went into an adjoining room and found it
contained some curious-looking machines. They
were tanks stripped of their armouring and mounted
on oscillating transoms to give them the see-saw
motion that would be produced by rough country.
Before each of the tanks lay a stretch of countryside,
not painted this time on a circular canvas but
.modelled in miniature on a long, earth-covered
platform. There were the little cardboard houses,
the nursery railway lines, and minute tanks moving
over the ground. The decor reminded one of the
models one sees in museums, while the armouring
of the tanks, brought to life by bizarre and brutal
movement, might have been something in Luna
Park or Coney Island.
But this giant toy which would delight the heart
of any small boy is only the instrument of an
excellent method of instruction. Seated in his tank,
with the butt of his gun at his right shoulder, his
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