Since a few timid people will talk of "the whole
of our Army " being sent abroad, and of these islands being without any defence, we may as well give them a few figures, though necessarily of a rather round character. We have got the whole of the Territorial Force embodied, or, say, three hundred thousand men, and a great part of that force is of excellent quality, while even the less excellent is now rapidly improving, both as regards officers and men. Next, we have still got in these islands a very large body of Regulars numbering some hundred and fifty thousand or more. In all there must be half a million men under arms, and to these we may add at least a hundred thousand men of very fine quality in the National Reserve. Lastly, before very long we shall be able to add the men of Lord Kitchener's Second Army.
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