24 DECEMBER 1910, Page 3

It is greatly to be hoped that the War Office

will not let the example of Surrey be forgotten by the other counties which are officially under orders to raise Veteran Reserves. Surrey had no exceptional advantages, but rather a good many exceptional disadvantages, in the way of raising a Veteran Reserve, and what she has done could easily be done by every other county in the kingdom. It specially behoves the capital to set a good example, and the task there, owing to the con- centration of the population, should be particularly easy. London ought to have a Veteran Reserve of between fifteen thousand and twenty thousand men of magnificent quality. We sincerely hope that it will not be long before the two London Associations make the necessary appeal.