28 JULY 1906, Page 3

Last Saturday the Secretary of State for War was present

at Newlands Corner, near Guildford, at some field opera- tions, described by a correspondent in another portion of our issue, in which Volunteers and local riflemen took part. Mr. Haldane in an interesting speech said that he looked forward to the day when we should give up the expression "Auxiliary Forces" altogether and speak only of a National Army. It was impossible to talk as if all Volunteers should do the same thing and be of the same quality. They should have different functions in different parts of the country, and the organisa- tion should include every type of man, from those whose training was almost as good as that of Regulars to those who could only shoot. "He believed in the Volunteer Forces and rifle organisations behind them, and he believed in the Militia and Yeomanry in front of that, and in the Regulars in the forefront; and he held that the whole made up one great National Army with different functions assigned to its different parts, but every part contributing its share to the need which the whole had to meet."