During the past week the Spectator Experimental Company have been
at Aldershot, and have had the honour of being attached to the let Battalion of the Grenadier Guards (unquestionably one of the finest infantry regiments in the world), in order that the Company's competence might be tested by Sir John French himself. Colonel Pollock, in an interesting letter which we publish in another column, describes the details of the field day held on Wednesday. We note that, as in all recorded cases since sham fights were first invented, there seems to be some controversy as to whether the scheme conditions could have occurred in actual war, and, there- fore, as to whether they were reasonable. That, however, is a comparatively unimportant matter. The really important thing in a field day is not the winning or losing, but the behaviour of the troops as a whole.
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