Friday's Times gives a very interesting account of some experiments
in landing operations under war conditions which have been held at the island of Spit, off the coast of Schleswig. According to the Borsenzeitung, an entire infantry regiment, with transport waggons and horses, were conveyed by night from a place on the shore twenty kilometres away, and landed by means of boats and rafts in two hours, while a section of field artillery with howitzers and full war equipment was landed under similar conditions with equal speed and without accident. It should be remembered that the landing- parties had to manoeuvre without lights, and that the beacons and other sea-marks were removed. That is a very remark- able performance, and does great credit to all concerned. No doubt in such operations it is practice that makes perfect. The time taken in landing troops, especially when they are conveyed at night, can be enormously reduced by intensive training and the minute study of detail.
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