LORD HALDANE AND THE TERRITORIALS.
(To ins Eerroe or THE "tlecoreeroz.") Soo,—I have no intention of taking part in another controversy on the merits or demerits of the Territorial Force and its organization, but I cannot allow the etricturee of Colonel Reid in your issue of January 4th to pass without a protest. To say, as he dues, that "the Territorial Force organieatIon was put on the shelf when the war broke out," and that the " ' Terriers' were drafted into brigades of Regulars to fill gaps when they were sufficiently ready to fight." suggests (tonic his own words) "ass obliquity of vision equal bo that of any Bourbon," and shows an ignorance of fade surprising in one who employe the public; Press to belittle a Force that Lord French has told us saved the situation in the first anxious days of the war. The work of those responsible for carrying on the organisation of the Territorial Force has been heavy all through the war, and it is not the least successful portion of the work done in the war. The North Midland Division (the 46th) went to the front in March, 1915, not to fill up gaps in brigades of Regulars, but as a Division, and it was this earns Division of Colonel Reisf's " sham" Army that stormed end carried the St. Quentin Canal on October 28rd, 1918. There is no theatre of war in which the Territorials of Great Britain have not made their mark. There is hardly a page iii the hittery of the war in which they do sot find an honoured place. We who miseel the Force are proud of it to-day. We who know it resent these eAtacks made on it by men who eta not.—I am, Sir. do.. DAHINOTTH Paithiat
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