It is not for us to distribute the national favours,
but we may remark, in regard to the second part of Mr. Horne's first question, that but for the influx of some thirty or forty thousand National Reservists from Class I. into the Special Reserve mobilization could not have been the complete and efficient thing that it was, for the Special Reserve was an essential bolt in the great machine of the First Line. Next, we venture to say that the very important work of guarding railways, bridges, vulnerable points, and prisoners must either have taken away troops urgently wanted elsewhere, or else have involved great risks and dangers, had not the National Reserve been at band to do the work. Again, but for the memhers of the National Reserve the work of instructing the new troops would have been mush more difficult.
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