The adjourned debate in the Lords on the Motion of
Lord Midleton, who had asked for any minute of the Army Council approving the further reduction of the Regular artillery and the Report for 1907 of the late Inspector-General, was resumed on Monday by Lord Lucas, who supported the new scheme and charged Lord Roberts with condemning the whole Territorial Army. This charge Lord Roberts at once repudiated, declaring that his strictures only applied to the proposed training of the artillery, which was the most scientific branch. This view was supported by Lord Wynford, who maintained that to make an efficient artillery officer one must start young and devote the whole of one's time to this branch, and by Lord Raglan, who declared that he would rather have a scratch brigade composed of well- organised battalions than a well-organised brigade composed entirely of scratch battalions. Lord Lovat said that he believed in the Territorial Army scheme if it was going to have a chance, but not if it was going to be starved for money.
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