25 MARCH 1905, page 12

Army Reorganisation: Why Not All Com- Missions Through...

P Sin,—Hoping that my career, embracing Rugby, Sandhurst, six years a subaltern struggling to live on his pay and ending in inevitable resignation, then ten years in the United......

Letters To The Editor.

THE WAR OFFICE AND THE VOLUNTEERS. [To THE Einem OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—The whole nation is in your debt for the vigorous steps you are taking to restore the War Office to a......

!though The Military Critics Have Had A Great Deal To

say lately on the uselessness of " passive defence," A has always been in favour with a large percentage of the animal world, from mammals downwards. Those which adopt it do not......

Sir, —sir Howard Vincent In His Letter To The Secretary Of

State for War (Spectator, March 11th) puts the number of Militia who served in South Africa at 1,691 officers and 43,875 men, but he has forgotten to include the Militia......