Whenever and wherever employed, we are certain that the National
Reserve will give a good account of themselves. In the rush of the recruiting for the New Armies it was pe&haps inevitable that what they did should be ignored. Yet it is not too much to say that the addition which they made to our forces at the beginning of the war helped materially to save the situation. No facts have as yet been given as to the total contribution of the National Reserve, but, unless we are mistaken, more men came from it in the first two months of the war than from the Regular Reserve. To begin with, they made up the deficiency of nearly four hundred thousand men in the Special Reserve, and beyond that they con- tributed some hundred and fifty thousand men, directly or indirectly, but for the most part directly, to our military forces.
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