At the first annual dinner of the Motor Volunteer Corps,
held on Tuesday evening, Major-General Sir H. Hildyard freely acknowledged the value of the corps as tested at the recent Manceuvres. Contrasting his own experiences at the Manceuvres of 1898 and 1903, he was in a position to say that a great saving in time and physical exertion had been effected by the assistance and energy of the Motor Volunteer Corps, and he believed that this would hold good in actual war as well. Foreign military authorities were already beginning to look into the matter, and it was something to our credit that the British Army was the first to have adopted the motor for practical uses. He also, we are glad to see, spoke of the value of the cycle in military operations. Finally, he assured the corps of the keen practical interest taken in the movement by Lord Roberts, whose convalescence is now happily established.
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