We cannot leave Lord French's speech without putting on record
In our columns the tribute paid by him to Lord Haldane. We must quote it textually. Speaking of the Volunteers generally, he declared that "It was reserved for Lord Haldane to bring them to the zenith
of their reputation and value. The nation is indeed deeply indebted to the -determined energy, skill, and foresight of that great and dis- tinguished statesman. It was he who saw the real use to which they might be turned, and the general result was that great Territorial Army which is administered by those invaluable Territorial County Associations, the conception of which was surely one of the greatest strokes of genius any statesman ever exhibited. And what has bees the outcome of all this ? The answer is clear to any one who in the last two years has cast his eyes across the Channel, and observed the magnificent deeds in the field of those glorious Territorial divisions of citizen soldiers, who as volunteers have given their life's blood los King and Country."
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