25 JUNE 1904, page 30

Recent Royal Commission :- Major - General Sir John Ardagh.

"Q. 3,316.—There are a very large number of very good bat- talions in the Volunteers, I think much larger than most people have any conception of." "Q. 3,328.—It appears to me......

I Am Not Concerned With The Writer's Own Opinions, But

I join issue with him when he claims as an expert to dogmatise on the Volunteer Force. I challenge, in particular, one sentence to the effect that "seven-tenths of the Volunteer......

Sra,—with Reference To Your Very Apposite Remarks In Your...

week's issue upon the letter of "Adjutant, Volunteer Artillery," who, if he really holds such appointment, is the last person who ought to have written such a letter, it is of......

Requisite Preparations.

German hatred "towards England is fierce, inextinguishable, persistent; and, to our shame be it added, is based as much upon contempt for our military incapacity and unreadiness......