The bad news from the Modder River has very properly
been followed by an official announcement that "a Sixth Division has been mobilised, and that four battalions of it will have embarked by Sunday next." A Seventh and an Eighth Division will also be immediately mobilised. Though we do not share the outcry for immediately sending out one hundred thousand men, it is evident that more men, say some thirty thousand, ought to be sent, and more held in readiness. The beet judge, however, of how many more are wanted ie Sir Redvers Buller, and we have no doubt whatever that all he asks for will be sent him. If his calls are too great for the regular Army, we must utilise, as suggested in another column, the hitherto unused military resources of the nation. In any case we ought to at once enlist every loyal man in South Africa who is ready to serve. Even if he does not know his drill, the ,British Colonist who can shoot is just as good a man as the undrilled Boer, and he, as we have found, is quite good enough.
