15 JULY 1916, Page 3

To repeat this blunder would, one would think, be beyond

even the perverted ingenuity of a civilian clerk at the War Office. Yet if rumour speaks true, it is at this moment actually contemplated. It is proposed not merely to change the name of the National Reservists, but to kick down and destroy the ladder by which they laboriously climbed out of civil life. So glaring a id nder, if it is really contemplated—we shall refuse to believe it is until we have far better evidence than at present—must be prevented at all costs: