15 OCTOBER 1910, Page 3

We publish in another column a letter from a corre-

spondent—Mr. Dawson—urging that a Veteran Reserve should be established throughout the Empire. We most earnestly hope that Mr. Dawson's suggestion may bear fruit, and we gladly submit to our colleagues of the Press throughout the Empire that they might do an admirable piece of work by urging their respective Governments to establish a Register of Trained Men. It was undoubtedly to the Surrey newspapers, aided by the London Press, that the success of the Surrey Veteran Reserve was due, and if the newspapers of the Empire generally would first induce the overseas Governments to take up the formation of a Register, and then help them to get the names and addresses of the trained men, a great Imperial work would be accomplished.