We are delighted to find that the belief we have
always expressed as to the soundness of the new Yeomanry, and the protests we have made against the unfairness of the abuse that has been showered on them, are being amply justified by their performances in the field. The Daily Express of Thursday gives some interesting extracts from letters of commanders of columns which are full of praise for the men. "Can you enlighten me," says one of these commanders, "as to why every one crabs the new Yeomanry ? I consider they are extremely good and brave as lions. They have been highly tried, having to be alongside cavalry regiments and doing the same work." Another calls the men splendid and says they are a grand lot of fellows, "always pleased with an engage- ment," and adds that he would not change his two companies of new Yeomanry for an equal number of any corps in South Africa. When one reads testimony like this it is difficult to restrain one's indignation at the way in which this gallant corps was abused by those who should have known better. Instead of .being looked on as a fiasco, we think the formation of a body of seventeen thousand men almost at a moment's notice, and without any of the attractions of great names and lordly Patronage as in the case of the first batch of Imperial Yeomanry, an achievement to be proud of. The raising of the new Yeomanry showed how large is the supply of good military material always available in England.
