A NATIONAL GUARD.
To THE EDITOR OP TUE "SPECTATOR."!
SIR,—With reference to the letter headed "A National Guard," by Lieutenant-Colonel C. Ford, in last week's • Any boy who wishes to enter for the competition should send to me for the particulars and for the official No.1 targets, and enclose Is. entrance-fee and a btauved addressed envelope for reply.
Spectator. If Colonel Ford will look up an essay written by me for the Royal United Service Institution, and published in 1906, he will find a complete tabular statement of our resources in more or less trained men who have passed through the ranks of the several Services available for the purpose he suggests, together with proposals for utilising them, drawn up, in the first instance, with a view to the then existing organisation, but equally applicable to the one which has now taken its place. In "War and the World's Life" I have still further developed the idea, and any assistance I can give him in his purpose is very freely at his disposal.—I am, P.S.—The numbers available total nearer three millions than one.
Previous page
