We have received more letters about the new Regulations for
the Volunteers than we have space to print. We have met with no opposition whatever to our suggestion that those men of Section D who are unable to accept the obligations of Section A should bo formed into a Reserve. We repeat, however, our hope that every man who can possibly do so will act as the War Office desires and enter Section A. Personally, we regret that Section D should be dis- banded, for there are undoubtedly a great many men who are genuinely prevented from joining Section A by the unavoidable calls of business or by other work of national importance. There is something also to be said from the point of view of the man, already a fully trained Volunteer, who has land at his disposal, and feels that, being unable to procure any labour, he must cultivate it him- self. Such a man might very intelligibly tell himself that the danger of the country being starved was a hundred times as great as the danger of the country being invaded. Every day, if necessary, appeals are being issued to him to grow as much food as he possibly can.
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